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I.— TWO THIRTEENTH-CENTURY

ASSIZE ROLLS FOR THE COUNTY OE

DURHAM.

II.— NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

III.— DOCUMENTS RELATING TO

VISITATIONS OF THE DIOCESE AND

PROVINCE OE YORK, 1407, 1423.

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BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, LONDON.

1916,

At a General Meeting of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held
in Durham Castle, on Tuesday, June 1st, 1915, the
Rev. Dr. GEE in the chair,

It was resolved,

That a volume of Miscellanies be prepared for the
Society, to consist of the following Articles : —

I. — Two Thirteenth-Century Assize Rolls for the County
of Durham, now preserved in the Public Eecord
Office, to be edited by Mr. K. E. BAYLEY.

II. — North Country Deeds, from originals in the same
repository, to be edited by the SECRETARY.

III. — Diocesan and Provincial Visitations in the Fifteenth
Century, from the Registers of the Archbishops of
York, to be edited by Mr. A. HAMILTON THOMPSON.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

I._Two Thirteenth-Century Durham Assize Rolls :—

Introduction

Durham Eyre Eoll, 27 Henry III. ... 1

Sadberge Assize Roll, 1235-6 75

II.— North Country Deeds ... 107

Durham 109

Northumberland 114

Yorkshire 122

Scotland 124

III. — Documents relating to Visitations of the Diocese and

Province of York ... ... ... ... ... 131

Introduction ... ... 133

Extracts from the Register of Archbishop Bowet, Vol. I. 152

Extracts from the Register of Archbishop Kempe . . . 201

Appendix ... ... ... ... 291

Index 303

INTRODUCTION.

TT was during the early part of the thirteenth century that
the Bishops of Durham consolidated those palatinate
privileges which attained their fullest development at the
end of that century, when Anthony Bell, " of that state and
greatness as never any Bishop was, Woolsey excepted,"*
ruled the diocese. Of the origin of those privileges it is
not necessary to speak, but for the proper understanding of
the two Assize Rolls which form this volume it is requisite
that some reference should be made to the development of
those privileges during the latter part of the twelfth and
the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. t

That the great franchise of Durham did not disappear
under the centralizing movement of Henry II. 5s reign is due
to Hugh Pudsey, Bishop from 1153 to 1195. A cousin of
the King, he not only successfully resisted those centralizing
tendencies, but obtained charters confirming his jura regalia,
and, on Richard I.'s accession, extended their area by
purchasing Sadberge, that narrow and ill-defined strip of
territory J which, bordering on the river Tees, until then
formed part of the county of Northumberland. Pudsey was
succeeded by Philip of Poitou, who had to pay first 500 marks
to Richard I. and then 1200 to King John for the con-
firmation of the grant of Sadberge. After his death in 1208
the see remained vacant during nine stormy years of John's
rule — or misrule. The Bishopric in the capable hands of

* Coke, " Institutes," iv., 216.

f The materials for this short sketch are mainly drawn from Lapsley's
" County Palatine of Durham " and the " Victoria County History of Durham,"
ii., 142 seq.

£ The rolls here printed enable the actual area of Sadberge to be identified
more certainly than heretofore.

INTRODUCTION.

franchi of the Prior and Convent of Durham, who
attempted to oust the jurisdiction of the Bishop in matters
secular, in the same way that the Bishop, for his franchise,
claimed exemption from the jurisdiction of the royal courts
A long and bitter dispute ensued lasting during Richard
Marsh's episcopate (1217-1226) and only coming to an end
in 1229, when Bishop Poor effected a compromise, the terms
of which are set out in the " Convenit." This document,
and still more the « attestations testium," which fortunately
have been preserved/ throw considerable light on the
administration of the Bishopric during the period preceding
the Assize Rolls here printed. Difficulties not dissimilar in
their nature arose between the Bishop and his great feuda-
tories the Balliols, the Braces, and the Nevilles, the dispute
in the two former cases being complicated by the Balliol and
Bruce fees being situate in Sadberge. However, it was
finally decided that the Bishop had the same jura regalia in
Sadberge as in the remainder of the Bishopric, and, shortly
after the middle of the thirteenth century, the Bishop's
sway was undisputed.

Now, in order that the Bishop should be able to deal
with all causes of dispute within his franchise, it was
necessary that his courts should be transformed from a
mere seignorial court into one modelled on the royal courts.
When this transformation began is not known, but it seems
reasonable to attribute it to Pudsey, who had acted as a
royal justice, and this at a time when the royal courts were
being greatly developed.f However this may be, it appears
from a case in the royal courts at the beginning of the
thirteenth century that it was doubtful if the Bishop's

* " Feodarium Prioratus Duuelmensis " (Surtees Society, 1871), 212 seq.
t The point is fully discussed by Lapsley, op. cit., 161 seq. Bishop Richard
Marsh also acted as a justice in eyre in 12.18, " Pal. Pat.," 1216—1225, 206,

INTRODUCTION. XI

court was competent to deal with a case of the grand
assize.*

The long vacancy from 1208 to 1217 was doubtless not
without effect, for the men of the Bishopric would become
familiar with the procedure of the royal courts and the
advantages incident to the new forms of process available
there. f Hence it is not a matter of surprise to find a few
years later in the rolls here printed that the procedure
appears to be the same as that in the royal courts.

Of the two rolls which form this volume one relates to
an eyre held in 1242, whilst the other records the legal
business of the wapentake of Sadberge during the year 1235-6.

A thirteenth-century eyre J was a very different thing from
the modern assize, for its main objects were the raising of
money and the ascertainment that the Bishop's rights and
privileges had not in any way been interfered with since
the last eyre ; incidentally a few, but only a few, criminals
were tried, and still fewer were convicted. The money was
obtained by fining§ every individual or community for every
neglect of duty since the last eyre, and, needless to say, the
standard of duty for this purpose was exceedingly high. The
slightest slip in the complicated procedure was duly noted,
and the luckless individual or community had to pay for his
or their act of omission or commission. Unfortunately the

* The case is printed, Lapsley, op. cit., 313. It is of interest to note that
the plaintiff (Galfridus films Galfredi), who desired to oust the Bishop's juris-
diction, is one of the Bishop's justices in 1235, before whom the Sadberge cases
were tried, infra, p. 76.

t In 1227 (sede vacante) an eyre was held in the Bishopric. Martin de
Pateshull, that great and indefatigable judge who " works from sunrise until
night," presided ("Cal. Close," 1227—31).

J The classic work on the subject is Maitland's " Pleas of the Crown for the
County of Gloucester." See also " The Eyre of Kent " (Selden Society), 3 vols.,
" Northumberland Assize Rolls " (Surtees Society), " Somerset Pleas" (Somer-
set Eecord Society). Por the French procedure at this period, Esraeiu "Hist,
de la procedure crimiuelle," Ducowdray, " Les Origines du Parlement de Paris
et la Justice.1'

§ Technically they were amerced — a fine was fixed by the judges— an
amercement by "honest men of the neighbourhood," McKechme, " Magna
Carta," 334 ; Maitland, " Gloucester Eoll," xxxiv.

Xll INTRODUCTION.

roll of fines has not been preserved, but the amounts were
generally fixed on a traditional scale. And here it may be
mentioned that the "Convenit" — the agreement between
the Bishop and the Prior and Convent — provides that, if any
man of the Prior's fee is fined in the Bishop's court, the
amount shall be fixed by the oath of four men — two from
the Bishop's fee and two from the Prior's fee-^-the resultant
fine being divided between the Bishop and the Prior.*

The other rights and privileges which were the subject
of inquiry at the eyre were mainly those incidental to the
Bishop's position as feudal overlord — questions as to the
wardship of infants, the marriage of widows, and the value
of their lands, the keeping of the assizes of cloth and of
weights and measures, interference with rights of fishery
had to be answered and the then state of the case put on
record for future reference.f

Of the names of the judges before whom the eyre is held
only two are named at the head of the roll — Robert fitz
Meldred and Richard Duket, From case 47 it would appear
that Geoffre}r fitz Geoffrey was one of their fellow justices.
Fortunately three different records of litigation have pre-
served the names of the other justices — Geoffrey of Lewkenor,
John of Kumsey, and Walter de Merton.J

* " Feodarium Prior. Dun.,'3 215. The clause contains the following :
" liber homo salvo continemento suo " (as to this obscure term see Pollock and
Maitland, " Hist, of English Law," ii., 515 ; McKechnie, " Magna Carta," 345)
" mercator salva merchandia sua, rusticus salvo wauwagio suo." The terms of
the settlement effected by the " Convenit" indicate that it is not so much the
question of jurisdiction, but of the profits incidental to the exercise of that
jurisdiction, which were in dispute. Hence the settlement gives the jurisdiction
to the Bishop and half the incidental profits to the Prior.

t Holdsworth," Hist, of English Law," i., 11 2; Stubbs, " Select Charters," 25&.

J The records referred to are : —

1. A fine levied at Sadberge on 25 June 1242, " Guisbro' Chartulary "
(Surtees Soc., 1891), ii., 333.

2. Quit Claim by Gerardus de Caldwell to the Prior of Pinchale,
" The Priory of Pinchale " (Surtees Soc., 1837), 108.

3. Inspeximus of Proceedings at Durham in the 2nd year of Bishop
Farnham, " Durham Cursitor" (Public Record Office), No. 92, Roll 2 of
Bishop Toby Matthew, membrane 16d.

'KODTJCTl

Robert fitz Meldred was the Lord of Raby and ancestor
of the Durham branch of the Neville family. The date of
his birth is not known, but he succeeded to his father's
estates in 1195. He was one of the most influential men in
the Bishopric, and had for many years been prominent in
the Bishop's council and courts.*

Richard Duket, "that inquisitive person," was a royal
justice of long" standing, f whilst Merton is the future Chan-
cellor of England ; in 1242 he was Chancellor to the Bishop,
and is so referred to in the Inspeximus above referred to.{
Lewkenor was the Bishop's steward, then the most important
administrative officer of the Palatinate. §

Rumsey was Lewkenor's predecessor in the office of
steward, || whilst Geoffrey fitz Geoffrey, the Lord of Horden,
was, like Robert fitz Meldred, not only a territorial magnate,
but also well versed in the business of the Bishopric. 1[

The bench it will thus be seen was a strong one, con-
sisting as it did of two representatives of the landowning
class, three important administrative officials, and a royal
judge of considerable standing.**

The place or places where the eyre was held are not
mentioned in the roll, but it is evident that the cases

* For pedigree see Round, Ci Feudal England," p. 488. His activity can be
traced iii the many important charters to which he is an attesting witness (see
Index to "Feodarium Prior. Dun." sub. nora.).

f Maitland's Introduction of " Bracton's Note Book," i., 51 ; see also Foss,
"Judges," ii., 313.

J The Chancellorship to the Bishop was the first important post held by
Merton. In 1242 he would not appear to have had any experience as a royal
justice ("Diet. Nat. Biog."; Foss, "Lives of the Judges," iii., 129).

§ He is so referred to in the Inspeximus mentioned above, and probably
is the person who became a royal justice later in the thirteenth century
(Foss, iii., 118). For the office of steward, see Lapsley, op. cit., 77.

|| Hutchinson, " Hist. Durham," i., 247 ; Mickleton MSS. (Bishop Cosin's
Library, Durham), la, fol. 6; "Feodarium," 217.

IF Surtees, "Hist. Durham," i., 243 ; " Feodarium," Index sub. nom.

** As the conduct of the Bishop's steward would be likely to be called in
question in the course of the eyre his inclusion as a justice seems peculiar ; it
will also be noticed that Robert fitz Meldred appears in more than one case,
e.g., 243, 291.

XIV INTRODUCTION.

relating to Sadberge were not dealt with at Durham,*
whilst the absence of any reference to adjournments, etc., to
Durham in cases from the other wards seems to imply that
they were held at Durhamf and the Sadberge cases were
dealt with there, Sadberge being then a place of some
importance, with a prison which seems to have answered to
the medieval conception of that establishment as a place
whence the prisoners escaped.^

As a rule the people of the Bishopric .were fortunate in
not having to travel far, except in the case of those
unfortunate individuals who dwelt in the detached portions
of the Bishopric on the Scottish Border and had to travel
the length of Northumberland to attend the eyre at
Durham. § Even they were fortunate in comparison with
the suitors and jurors in other counties, who were liable to
be called upon to attend the Royal Courts at Westminster.

When the very large number of persons who had to
attend the eyre is borne in mind — for not only had all the
county officials to attend, but also representatives of each
township, to say nothing of the jurors, the parties to the
cases, and numberless pledges of all kinds, the only
noticeable absentees being the criminals — the question of
providing a suitable court must have been one of difficulty.
The rolls contain no indication on the subject, and it is

* From the fact that Sadberge prisoners were sent to Durham (3, 13) it
would almost look as though they were tried there, but the entries in reference
to Durham in cases 36 and 38 appear to be conclusive that the Sadberge cases
were not heard there.

f The terms of the " Convenit " support the view that Durham was the place
of trial : " Si hominis Episcopi de Norhamshire veniant ad placitandum corum
justiciariis apud Dunelm." The alternative place of trial was Norham, and it
is evident that the Norham cases at this eyre were not tried there as they
entered among those relating to the Chester Ward, vide infra.

J Hatfield's " Survey " (Surtees Soc., 1856), 194, gives some indication of
the importance of the place; the number of burgages held of the Bishop is
noticeable. The entry of rent in the " Survey " in reference to the prison is
suggestive : " pro evasione, si accideret, prisonariorum."

§ The entries in reference to Norham and the other outlying districts are
mixed up with those relating to the Chester Ward after case 316.

INTRODUCTION. XV

probable that the court sat in a church.* It will be noticed
that the eyre roll, unlike in this respect the Sadberge roll,,
does not give any date except the episcopal year of the
Bishop. From the fine referred to on p. xii. we know that
the justices were at Sadberge on June 25th, and the dates
referred to in cases 36 and 157 indicate that the eyre was
held at the end of June and the beginning of July 1242,
a very suitable period in the county of Durham, as the
business of the eyre would be over before the haymaking
season began — a matter of much importance when the very
large number of persons who had to attend is borne in
mind.

It would appear that the eyre roll is the actual record
made by the clerk of the court. The very large number of
clerical errors which appear in the text — they are not all
due to remissness on the part of the editor — indicate that
the entries were hurriedly made, whilst the character of the
writing does not suggest that it is a transcript. The nature
of some of the marginal notes may be quoted in support of
this view, e.g., " eras " opposite cases (119, 122, 178, 336),
and "die mercurii" (221) and "post prandium " (361).
Further, several of the entries are left in an unfinished
condition (e.g., 44, 194), and in some instances additions
have been made in a different hand at, apparently, a later
date (109, 161).

It should, however, be mentioned that in certain cases
(e.g., 106) the entry after the word " Postea " does not
appear to have been added later, but it does not seem
impossible that such additions were made on the same day
but at a later hour, and that the clerk, knowing that such
addition would have to be made, left the necessary space —
this supposition is supported by the not infrequent spaces

* The Galilee, at the west end of Durham Cathedral, was used at an earlier
date as a court. This appears from the evidence of witnesses in the dispute
between the Bishop and the Prior, which was settled by the a Convenit." There
is some difference between the witnesses as to the place where a certain case was
tried; the Galilee, the Palace Green (placia), and the house of Gilbert Hansard
are all mentioned (" Feodarium," 252).

XVI INTRODUCTION.

left between entries in the roll. The difficulties of the clerk
are illustrated by case 307,, where a presentment by the
township of Gateshead was either not heard or over-
looked— it rather suggests a crowded and somewhat noisy
court.

As to the nature of the entries on the roll, the following
advice given by the late Professor Maitland* must be borne
in mind : —

" We are evidently dealing, not with a document carefully
made up after the judicial business which it describes was
over, but with a collection of notes jotted down while that
business was actually going on. Consequently, we must
expect language which is summary, elliptical, disjointed.
It must be allowed that the Latin is bad ; by which is meant
not merely that it is medieval Latin (Bracton's Latin is good
enough, though it is the Latin of the thirteenth, not of the
first century), but that it is bad Latin in the same sense that
modern e notes of evidence ' are bad English. One must read
it in jerks, as one would read the notes which judges and
counsel now make ,in court ; one must be prepared for very
sudden changes of nominative, and willing to fill up breaches
of grammar with common sense."

To illustrate the procedure a few typical cases may be
taken. (Jase 106 records that Thomas of Easington acci-
dentally killed his son. Thomas was imprisoned, but as
was almost always the case, he was released on finding
pledges that he would appear before the justices. He
accordingly appears before the judges. The jury — not the
petty jury of our day, but the presenting jury, the ancestor
of our grand jury — say that Thomas killed his son by mis-
fortune and not by either anger or hatred. Thomas is
accordingly placed in the custody of the constable of the
castle — of Durham evidently — until the justices have had an
opportunity of discussing the question with the Bishop,
doubtless with a view of a free pardon being granted, for
the judges have no power to acquit a man who was found to

* Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester, xxvii.

INTRODUCTION. xvii

have committed homicide by misadventure.* Thomas,
however, is not kept in prison, as he finds two pledges who
undertake to produce him if any one desires to take action
against him in connection with his son's death.

Case 130 is an example of action by an approver, a
criminal who, in consideration of his successfully prosecuting
a certain number of other criminals, is allowed to go free.
In this case Stephen of Trindon denounces Geoffrey of
Haswell, who is arrested and then released on finding
pledges that he will attend before the judges. Subsequently
Geoffrey steals corn and is caught red-handed, but luckily
for him the value of the corn is only two pence,, for he
would have been hung without trial had the value exceeded
a shilling as a hand-having thief .f When brought up before
the county court he confesses that he stole the corn, but no
reference is made to his having suffered any punishment
for his petty larceny, such as whipping or the loss of an ear.
At the eyre the jury state that they do not suspect Geoffrey
of any offence except that of stealing corn, and he is therefore
acquitted, but at the same time is ordered to quit the
Bishopric unless he obtains the Bishop's permission to
return J Of the fate of Stephen, the approver, who was
unsuccessful in his other prosecution (131), there is no
record. Hanging it was, no doubt, but as there was no
property for the Bishop to claim, the clerk omitted to record
the obvious result of his lack of success. The roll contains
several other cases of approvers (1, 2, 90, 91 and 92) who
attempted to fight their way to freedom, for, as a rule, the
decision depended on the duel fought with staffs, as in the
case (90) where Robert, the son of Abraham, was denounced
by Stephen, overcome by him in the duel, and hung. In
another case (2) the defendants summarily disposed of the
approvers by hanging them, a procedure which apparently

* Pollock and Maitland, ii., 479.

f Ibid., ii., 495, " Northumberland Assize Roll " (Surtees Soc.), 70.
J From his acquittal it would appear that he had already been punished by
the county court for his theft.

XV111 INTRODUCTION.

does not call forth any adverse comment, or even a fine by
the judges.

One of the principal methods of bringing criminals to
book was personal action on the part of the person injured,
who " appeals " the defendant.

In case 119 we have a series of appeals which followed
on what appears to have been a faction fight on Houghtoii
Moor. Alan of Houghton comes before the court, and in
minute detail describes the injuries he had received at the
hands of Hamo, serjeant of the Lord of Hur worth ; the hour,
the place, the nature of the wound, the weapon, and amount
of money stolen are all carefully specified, followed by an
offer to prove (dis-racionare) in the usual way, i.e., by duel.
To these charges Hamo does not plead a direct negative ; he
takes exception to Alan's process, and claims that he is not
called upon to reply to him on the grounds that, though
appealed with words of felony, Alan had not raised the
" Hue and Cry,"* that he had not made sufficient suit,f and
that the wounds are not visible.

To this defence Alan admits that he did not raise the
hue and cry, but states that he laid his complaint before the
Bishop's bailiff at Durham, and had shewn his wounds at
the county court. The judges, however, dismiss the appeal,
and the luckless Alan is fined for his " false " appeal and
ordered to be imprisoned. This, however, does not end the
case, which is referred to the jury to be dealt with on its
merits, the appeal having failed on purely technical grounds.
The jury say that Alan was beaten, but not robbed, and that
the hue and cry was not raised. They assess the damage
sustained by Alan at five shillings, which Hamo and another
Hurworth man have to pay.

Though there are a number of cases of appeal on the roll
it is but seldom that there is any definite result. In most
cases the prosecutor fails either to put in an appearance or
to proceed with the appeal, but, as has been seen above, a
failure of the appeal did not absolve the defendant, who as

* Pollock and Maitland, ii., 578. f Ibid., ii., 60G.

INTRODUCTION. XIX

a rule had to stand his trial by the court. Of criminal trials
of what would now be considered the usual kind there are
singularly few, for in most cases the criminal fled, or in the
very few cases where he was caught summary punishment
was inflicted. As a result there are a number of cases
where the criminal has been outlawed, the main interest ^of
the court being in securing his chattels for the Bishop, and
also the beneficial uses of his land for a year and a day.
Owing to the paucity of punishments available — for there was
nothing between death and the various minor penalties, such
as loss of an ear, whipping, etc., and imprisonment was not
then regarded as penal, but merely as a means of obtaining
payment of a fine or securing an individual's presence — the
court is not severe on defendants who, though guilty of the
offence with which they are charged, otherwise have an
unblemished character ; in such cases (350) the defendant is
allowed to return on finding pledges for his future good
behaviour.

TABLE I. at the end of this Introduction contains a rough
analysis of the criminal entries on the roll, indicating the
nature of the crime, the procedure, and the result. The
numerous cases of outlawry and undetected criminals shew
that the system of amateur police then in force was anything
but satisfactory, and viewed in that light the constant fining
of delinquent townships for allowing offenders to escape was
very necessary. It should be mentioned here that there
was no system of frankpledge* in the Bishopric, the offender's
township being the responsible unit, even, it would appear,
when the crime was committed outside the township (164,
166). Again, there was no murdrum fine, and Englishry
has not therefore to be presented. f

All things considered, the number of cases of sanctuary
recorded is somewhat small, but the advantages of simple
flight were greater, for in those days the plunge into the
unknown, which the process of abjuring the realm involved,

* In seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there are references to view of
frankpledge, but it would appear to be an innovation. As to frankpledge, vide
Pollock and Maitland, i., 568.

t Ibid., ii., 487 ; Cal. Close Rolls, 29 March 1227, p. 1"9.

XX INTRODUCTION.

would be somewhat terrifying to the ordinary offender,
whilst the roll (207) records the fate of a certain Richard,
who, having abjured the realm, was caught at York.*

The active and intelligent criminal had but little to fear
in those days — his main difficulty must have been the lack of
suitable material to steal. Except, possibly, in the townsf
the hue and cry seems to be singularly inefficient, for the
roll discloses the fact that in almost all cases of robbery the
robbers were unknown. The principal danger he ran was that
of being caught in the act, when his career of crime would be
speedily and effectively terminated, hanging and not decapita-
tion being the usual local method of doing this. The risk of
such a fate was but slight,! and it maybe of interest to study
the machinery which is brought into motion. The person
robbed must immediately raise the hue and cry in the four
neighbouring townships, and in addition he must inform the
serjeant of the ward (352). In the old days when wealth was
largely represented by flocks the tracking of the stolen animals
could be effectively done by the hue and cry, but it is evident
that, despite the many fines inflicted by the justices on
defaulting townships, it was singularly ineffective in cap-
turing criminals, and its main use was to prevent false
accusations of crime being brought against innocent persons,
for the failure to raise the hue and cry at fche earliest possible
moment was a not uncommon defence (60). §

* For the distinction between the lesser and greater sanctuary see infra, xxi.,
and the " Archaeological Journal." The question of abjuration is dealt with
very fully in " Kevue Historique," vol. 50, p. 1.

f In the roll the comparatively small amount of crime in the towns is
noticeable, and is possibly due to more effective police arrangements than in the
scattered townships.

J TABLE I. discloses the fact that of the 29 cases of robbery recorded by way
of presentment, in only two cases were the offenders hung ; and of the remainder
all escaped, though three took sanctuary and abjured the realm. The appeals of
robbery and wounding are made against persons who are not criminals; the
action of trespass was then only in its infancy, and an appeal was one of the
usual methods of bringing such questions before the court (Pollock and Maitland,
ii., 526).

§ The necessity for the issue of the writ of 1252 as to watch and ward
(" Select Charters," 370) indicates that the hue and cry at this period was not
working satisfactorily.

INTRODUCTION. XXI

To the criminal this somewhat cumbrous method of
pursuit would not cause much alarm; still, if the pursuit
was hot, the nearest church was always a place of temporary
safety. Once there the church had to be wa.tclied by the
four neighbouring townships to prevent his escape until, in
the presence of the coroner, he abjured the realm, took his
way to the nearest port, and left in all probability for
Scotland. On the other hand, if time permitted, the
criminal by crossing the Tyne or Tees was beyond the reach
of the palatinate courts,* whilst greater security could be
obtained by taking refuge in the greater sanctuaries of
Hexham and Ripon, where, under certain conditions and
within certain limits, he could dwell in peace without having
to abjure the realm, as he would have to do in the case of
the ordinary church. f Should the criminal be taken he
will, if not caught red-handed, be imprisoned until he can
find securities who will undertake to produce him when
required, unless meanwhile he has made good his escape, as
is not at all improbable. He ought to appear before the
county court, where his crime should be duly presented by
the four townships.^: The power of the county court§ to
deal with a case seems to be limited : they can acquit, || but

* Lapsley, op. fit., 252. Case 63 should be noted, where the robbers were
captured beyond the river Tees, which formed the southern boundary of the
palatinate.

t "Archaeological Journal." It should be noted that the greater sanctuary
of Durham Cathedral was not available to offenders guilty of crimes within the
palatinate — they had broken the Bishop's peace (Lapsley, op. eit., 253; " Sanc-
tuar. Dunelm.," Surtees Soc., passim).

J The roll does not disclose any procedure at a hundred court. Durham
was not divided into hundreds, but into four wards, Chester, Easington, Darling-
ton, and Stockton (Cal. Close Rolls, 1237, p. 567), in addition to Sadberge, which
is treated as a separate county. The halmote courts of the Bishop, held (at a
later date) three times a year, may be said to correspond to the hundred courts
in other districts.

§ The county court for Sadberge seems to be indifferently referred to as
comitatus and wapentagium (17, 41, 160). The Durham county court was held
every fortnight (Modern Rep.) and not every month. The reference to the
fuller county court in case 119 should be noted.

H Case 94. The acquittal did not absolve the defendant from appearing
before the justices.

XXU INTRODUCTION.

cannot convict. If, however, the criminal has fled, steps
will be taken to have him outlawed : he will be duly exacted
at the necessary number of courts and his property seized
unless he appears, which in fact he never seems to do. At
the eyre the crime will be duly presented by the twelve
jurors,* the four townships,f and the Serjeant. The
prisoner, if present, may put himself J upon the verdict of
the twelve jurors and the four townships. § Even in the
event of a conviction the prisoner's position, though desperate,
is not quite hopeless, for he can turn approver and fight his
way to safety by ridding- the world of a certain number of
his associates. So far as the eyre is concerned the mere
acquittal or conviction of the prisoner is a eomparativelv
minor matter. Careful inquiry has to be made into the
conduct of all persons and communities concerned in the
affair. Has the crime been duly presented at the county
court ? Did the various townships assist in the hue and
cry? Were all necessary parties "attached " so as to secure
their presence before the judges ? Are such persons present,
or, if dead, are they properly essoined or excused ? Any
failure is duly noted and a fine exacted, and, if we remember
that the circumstances of every crime during- the past seven
years had to be accurately stated, we can well understand
the dread with which the county regarded the visit every
seventh year of these travelling commissioners of taxes, as
the justices in eyre have well been called. || The men of
Gilesgate were doubtless well advised when they paid (291)
the comparatively large sum of 60 shillings per sic quod

* This will be done in writing (65).

f That the townships made their presentment verbally appears from case 307.

J The roll does not contain a case in which the prisoner declines to plead.

§ It is not safe to rely too much on the actual wording of the entries on the
roll ; the clerk who wrote it seems to use technical expressions somewhat loosety
at times. In many cases (e.g., 36, 131) only jurors are mentioned, in others the
expression " super patriam " is used, and from case 212 it would appear that this
is equivalent to jurors. There is no case where the verdict of the four townships
is taken. The expression "per fideles homines " in case 288 should be noted.

II Maitland, " Gloucester Assize Roll," p. xxvi.

INTRODUCTION. XX111

non occasionentur — evidently their consciences, or memories,
were not quite clear.

The successful plea of drunkenness as a defence (in case
352) to a charge of theft is interesting and the result some-
what startling to our ideas — acquittal of the prisoner, although
the jury convict her of the theft, whilst the luckless owner
of the stolen goods is fined for failing to report the fact of
drunkenness to the serjeant.

Of the non-criminal proceedings those relating to the
high-handed action of the Burgesses of Durham in claiming
that they alone had the right of buying and selling between
the rivers Tyne and Tees are the most interesting. It is not
as though they attempted to enforce this prohibition against
persons little likely to resist, but they seize the property of
the men of Robert fitz Meldred, who was not only the pre-
siding judge, but also one of the most powerful men in the
Bishopric. Unfortunately there is no record of the decision.

The many cases of drowning, especially in the river Tees,
indicate the difficulties and dangers of travelling when bridges
were but rare, whilst in case 202 we have, it is believed,
not only the first recorded colliery accident, but also the
first authentic record of the working of coal in the county.

Whilst the Eyre roll indicates the working of the adminis-
trative machinery of the Palatine, the Sadberge roll shews
the routine working of the court of that area, when it was
still treated as a separate county. Taking into consideration
the smallness of the area and the paucity of population, the
comparatively large number of cases entered on the roll
shews that the taste for litigation in the early part of the
thirteenth century was somewhat highly developed in
Sadberge. At the head of the roll four justices are named,
of whom three, Robert fitz Meldred, John of Rumsey, and
Geofferey fitz Geoffrey, we have already met with in the
Eyre roll, whilst the fourth, Jordan Heron, was a member of
a well-known Bishopric family and a judge of considerable
standing.* It is of interest to note that in case 492

* Surtees' " Hist. Durham," iii., 287, E-aine's " N. Durham," 304, " Feo-
darium," 231, where he states that he acted as a judge iu the time of Bishop
Philip of Poitou (1197—1208).

XXIV INTRODUCTION.

judgment is deferred as only two justices are present. In
TABLE II. the dates and sittings of the court are tabulated.
Except in the cases where the place is mentioned there is
nothing to indicate whether the sittings were at Durham or
at Sadberge, though from the entry by mistake of a Durham
case (449) 011 the Sadberge roll it would appear that Durham
and Sadberge cases were dealt with at one and the same
sitting of the court, and if this was so the court would
generally sit at Durham, with possibly occasional sessions at
Sadberge.

Though it is somewhat difficult to come to any definite
conclusion from the comparatively few cases entered on the
roll, it appears that the thirteenth-century litigant in
Sadberge found an armoury of writs and assizes at his
disposal very similar, if not identical, with those available
outside the palatinate. In addition to the somewhat old-
fashioned writ of right, there are cases of dower (377, 457),
novel disseisin (380, 452), mort d'ancestor (378, 453, 454,
455, 456, 462, 484), quare levavit murum (375, 376), quare
exaltavit stagnum (379, 450), quo jure (388, 451), quod
capiat homagium (467), and entry (458, 463) — a fairly
comprehensive list for so small a district. Doubtless the
great Martin de PateshulPs visit to the palatinate in 1227
would have a stimulating effect on the clerks of the Bishop's
chancery, and cause them to overhaul their register of writs.*
The long-drawn-out proceedings under the writ of right,
with all their stringent formalities and many adjournments,
are illustrated in the case between the Carew and Clare
families over land at Seaton Carew. On ten occasions does
it come before the court during the year in question, and
though we see the conclusion of the case, we do not know
when it began. At the hearing on the llth February 1236
(492), the care necessary in stating the case is well illustrated,
the plaintiff's attorney being attacked for his omission to
state the year and day on which Henry I. was living and dead

* As to these writs, see Maitland's " Register of Original Writs," Collected
Papers, ii., 110 ; Pollock and Maitland, ii.. 29 ; Select Civil Pleas (Selden Soc.),
passim ; Bracton's Note Book, passim,

xxv

when tracing the plaintiff's title. The omission nearly
proved fatal, but in the end the plaintiff succeeded. In
strong contrast with these dilatory proceedings is the
rapidity of the new possessory assizes. The Hurworth
Common case of novel disseisin is disposed of summarily at
a single sitting; the jurors merely state that Nicholas has
been disseised by Nicholas and Richard and their respective
wives, and the case is at an end except for the inevitable
fines on the unsuccessful parties.

Though at first sight the two rolls here printed may
appear to be mere records of crime and litigation, they will,
I think, be found of considerable interest in shewing the
remarkable way in which the legal and administrative
machinery of the palatinate developed during the first half
of the thirteenth century.

In conclusion, I have to express my thanks to Mr. H. H.
E. CEASTEE, who first drew my attention to these rolls ; to
Miss Cox and Miss GEOGAN for transcribing; to Mr. HAMILTON
THOMPSON for the very great assistance he gave me with
text ; and to our Secretary for much kindly help.

The Editor must crave the reader's kind indulgence for
the efforts of a novice — what his fate would have been at
the hands of the justices of the 1242 eyre, with their pain-
fully high sense of duty, he trembles to think.

DESCRIPTION OF ROLLS.
ROLL 223.

This roll consists of six membranes 7 inches wide, but of
varying lengths. They are joined together in Exchequer
fashion. The first membrane is 19 inches long, the second
17£, the third nearly 24, the fourth 23, the fifth 22, and the
sixth 19^ inches long. They are stitched together at the top
in Exchequer fashion. It is evident that at some time mem-
branes 5 and 6 have been transposed, the latter containing
entries relating to Chester Ward, in continuation of those on
membrane 4, whilst the very worn condition of the dorse of

c

XXVI INTRODUCTION.

membrane 5, and the endorsements on it mentioned below,
indicate that the change is of comparatively recent origin.

On the face of membrane 1 the entries are regularly
made, with slight gaps after cases 3 and 4. On the dorse
the entries are not so regular, intervals of about an inch
being left after cases 83, 38 and 40, and one of 2 inches
after case 47.

Except the Sadberge entries (68 — 71), which are rather
crowded, and a 3-inch interval after case 64, the entries on
membrane 2 are regularly written.

Membrane 3 calls for no comment except J-iiich intervals
after cases 119 and 122, and 3 inches after 139.

The entries on membrane 4 are regularly written, but
those at the end of the dorse are badly rubbed.

As has been mentioned above, membrane 5 was formerly
the outer skin of the roll. With the exception of the last
case (292) on the face the entries are regularly entered.
Case 292 would appear 'to have nothing to do with the eyre ;
the writing is crowded, and does not appear to have been
made at the same time as the other entries. There are
a few entries neatly written at the top of the dorse. Near
the bottom, " Durham Keg., No. 2," is written in a recent
hand, and then below it, in a fifteenth-century hand, " pro-
cessus Justiciariorum Itinerantium tempore Hugonis Epis-
copi . . . . et in .... processum .... hoi .... de
Hertipole." " Hugonis " has been crossed out and
<( Nicholai " inserted in a later hand.

The entries on membrane 6 are regularly made.

The roll is incomplete, as there are no entries relating to
the Stockton Ward.

EOLL 224.

This roll consists also of six membranes, but the last
three are joined together in Chancery fashion, so that the
roll appears to consist of only four sheets joined in Exchequer
fashion.

Membrane 1 is 8 inches wide and 23 long. The entries

INTRODUCTION. XXV11

are fairly and regularly entered on the face. On the dorse
(record of attorneys) they only occupy some 6 inches. The
sizes of the other membranes are 2, 7\ by 144 ; 3, 8^ by 21 i ;
4, 9J by 18^ ; 5, 7f by 19; and 6, 9| by 25J. The entries
are in all cases fairly and regularly written on the face;
there is nothing on the dorse except the endorsement printed
at the end of the roll. From the nature of the entries on
the second membrane it seems doubtful if it originally
formed part of the roll.

TABLE I.

ANALYSIS OF ENTRIES RELATING TO CRIME ON EYRE ROLL,
Presentment.
Murder.

Acquittal, 3 (13, 36, 251).

Conviction and hanging, 1 (3).

Abjures realm, 2 (3, 276).

Fled, 3 (11, 168, 317).

Outlawed, 17 (17, 30, 74, 162, 163, 164, 177, 179,

184, 191, 193, 194, 197, 199, 312, 318, 323).
Criminals unknown, 5 (18, 176, 314, 315, 316).
No result mentioned, 3 (166, 178, 195).

Wounding and/or Robbery.

Offenders unknown, 22 (6, 19, 21, 43, 72, 80, 206,

242, 244, 247-8, 250, 319-22, 324-33, 356).
Hung, 2 (245-6).
Abjures realm, 3 (63, 296, 358).
Outlawed, 1 (20).
Result not mentioned, 1 (41).

Theft.

Outlawed, 2 (232, 237).
Acquittal, 1 (47).
Pardoned, 2 (350, 352).

XXV111 INTRODUCTION.

Rape.

Settled (concordat!), 1 (101).
Fled, 1 (8).

Conviction, fined, 1 (9).
Imprisoned, 1 (371).
Prisoner dead, 1 (93).
No judgment, 1 (122).

Removing Criminals.

Outlawed, 2 (360-1).

Prisoner fails to appear, 1 (297).

Housebreaking.

Pardoned, 1 (86).
No judgment, 1 (44).

Burglary.

Hung, 1 (351).
Lose an ear, 1 (355).
Pardoned, 2 (103, 233).

Horse Stealing.

Acquittal, 1 (212).

Sheep Stealing.

Acquittal, 1 (188).

Hung, 1 (234).

Outlawed, 7 (87, 249, 359, 365, 367-9).

Pardoned, 1 (231).

Cattle Lifting.

Outlawed, 2 (357, 363).

Stealing other Animals.
Outlawed, 1 (366).
Pardoned, 1 (364).

Poaching.

Order for capture, 1 (118),

INTRODUCTION. XXIX

Sacrilege.

Imprisonment, 1 (372).

Death by misadventure, 3 (106, 109, 304).

Procedure by way of Appeal.
Murder.

Acquittal, 1 (184).

Wounding and/or Robbery.

Appeal does not lie (non jacet), 2 (32,* 119*).

„ not prosecuted, 5 (39, 136-9).
Appellor withdraws (retraxit se), 5 (38, 203-4,*

208,* 215).
Appellor fails in the formal statement (mihil dicit

per quod), 3 (205,* 211, 241*).
Against accessory fails owing to failure of appeal

against principal, 1 (205*).
Settled, 1 (210).
Appellor dead, 2 (212-13).
Benefit of clergy, 1 (33).

By Approvers.

Conviction, 2 (90, 91).

Acquittal, 6 (1, 2, 49, 92, 130-1, 253).

Manucaption, 1 (254).

Rape.

Insufficient suit, 2 (8, 125*).
Not prosecuted, 3 (31, 67, 94).
Appellor fails to appeal, 2 (95, 96*).
Appellee „ 1 (101).

Settled, 4 (116, 209, 214, 335).
False evidence, 1 (243).

* Indicates that though appeal failed the appellor was found guilty hy
the jurors.

XXX INTRODUCTION.

TABLE II.— SADBERGE ROLL.
DATE OF COURTS.

7 Aug.

1235

At Sadberge.

30 Aug.

1235

Durham (377).

8 Oct.

1235

Monday, Durham.

3 Nov.

1235.

5 Nov.

—

Monday.

14 Jan.

123|

Monday.

11 Feb.

123f

—

3 Mar.

123f

Monday.

7 Apr.

1236

„

28 Apr.

1236

„

26 May

1236

„

30 June

1236

ASSIZE ROLL 223.

27 HENRY III.

Placita Corone apud Sedberge coram domino Roberto
filio Meldredi, Ricardo Duket et sociis eorum, Justiciariis
domini Nicholai, Dunelmensis Episcopi, Itinerantibus, Ponti-
ficatus sui anno secundo.

Wapentagium de

Sedberge.

Quieti.
misericordia.

loquendum.

(1.) Dicurit quod Ricardus filius Gos-
patrici de Midleton, Hugo filloyl de eadem,
Alanus bulloc, Thomas Peins de eadem,
Rogerus Totay de Stainton, Rogerus Carres
de eadem inditati fuerunt per Ranulfum
Binnan et Thomam de Redleia, probatores,
ad ultimas assisas : venerunt et noii Male-
creduntur. Judicium, quieti. Et Alanus
[Coldestein] , unus de plegiis eorum, noii
veiiit : ideo in misericordia. Et Adam
Homel, Thomas de Egelston, Gilbertus Gad-
stanes, et Hugo Scalpy, similiter plegii sui,
noii venerunt : ideo in misericordia.

(2.) Rogerus Tottay et Rogerus de
Kaunres, inditati per eosdem probatores,
non subtraxerunt se, set per eos suspensi
fuerunt predicti probatores. Et Hugo de
Holm,, Johannes de Bristolle, et Robertus
filius Gilberti de Midletone, plegii sui, non
venerunt : ideo in misericordia.

(3.) Willelmus Cokeman de Castelden
strangulauit Syerith uxorein eius quadam
cordella, et missus fuit ad Gailam Dunelmi,
et de Prisona euasit. Et ideo loquendum
de euacione. Et Taya et sibilla filie sue,
consencientes huic facto, misse fuerunt apud
Dunelmum. Et Henricus de Neketon, tune
temporis custos Episcopatus, pro euasione

B

ASSIZE ROLL 223,, 27 HENKY III.

in misericordia. Catalla eiusdem Willelmi

xxxvj sol. xxxvj sol.,, vnde Johannes de rungetone

Respoii debit. Post euasionem predicti Wil-

lelmi, iiitrauit quandam ecclesiam in Dun-

abiurauit reguum. elmo et abiurauit regnum Eegis coram pre-

dicto Heiirico. Et quia Villata de Edene non

leuauenmt hutesium, ideo in misericordia :

loquendum. precium amii, etc.; x sol. vii j d., nnde loqueii-

dum. Et predictus Johannes de Rungetoiie

viij sol. vj d. Eespondebit de viij sol. et vj d. pro pannis

predicte Oyerith. Postea veniunt predicte

Taie et sibilla et ponunt se super xij iura-

tores et iiij villatas de bono et malo, qui

dicunt quod culpabiles sunt de facto illo :

suspense. ideo suspense. Cattalla predictarum sibille

ij sol. iiij d, et Taye ij sol. iiij d., unde loquendum pro

infante predicte sibille.

(4.) Quidam homo [ignotus] inuentus
Loquendum. fuit mortuus in Mora de edena; primus

inuentor, Rogerus filius Simonis; venitet non
Misericordia. male creditur : ideo Misericordia ; et quia

villate de Edeiie, Elwice, Herte, et Thorpe
loquendum. non leuauerunt hutesium, ideo loquendum.

Hertepol. (*>•) Simon Le Passur inuentus fuit sub-

mersus in passagio de Herterpol ; primus
inueiitor Helias filius Thome ; venit et non
Malecreditur, nee nullus alius. Judicium
Infortuiiium. Et quia villate de Stranton,
Gretam, Setone, et Daltone presentauerunt
Coronatori Henricum Punder pro primo
iiiuentore^ et [non] habuerunt eum coram
Justiciariis, et postea presentauerunt Heliam
filium Thome xij juratores pro primo inueii-
tore, qui comparuit coram Justiciariis, Ideo

misericordia, in misericordia ; et plegii Henrici Punder,

quia non habuerunt quod plegiaauermit, in

misericordia. misericordia ; precium bateili de quo cecidit,

xij d., unde Nigellus de Rungestone re-
spondebit.

Gretham. (*>•) Tres clerici ignoti hospitati fuerunt

ad domum Willelmi Messarii de Gretham,
et nocte leuauerunt et ligaueruiit euiii, et

ASSIZE ROLL 223., 27 HENRY III. 8

Sierith uxorem eius vulnerauerunt, et quan-
dam Garciam domus occiderunt : nullus
alius malecreditur.

(7.) Willelmus Bercarius de Tremedon
inuentus fuit ligatus in campo de Strantone,
et inuenit plegios ad esse coram Justiciariis,
et mortuus est ; et quia plegii sui noil
misericordia. essoiiiauerunt eum, ideo in misericordia,

scilicet Radulfus fill us Ricardi prepositi, et
Robertus filius Johannis de Straiiton.

(8.) Item dicunt quod Galfridus filius
Willelmi de Daltone rapuit Cristiaiiam
filiam Willelmi Addoc, et Galfridus captus
fuit per Willelmum Teston et imprisonatus,
ad indicium. et euasit de prisona sua ; et ideo ad indi-

cium de eo. Et predicta Cristiana sequitur
uersus eum ; et quia non fecit sufficientem
sectam, per quam predictus Galfridus re-
spondere deberet, si presens esset, precep-
tum est ei quod sequatur in cornitatu uersus
eunij et predictus galfridus interogetur de
comitatu in comitatum per vicecomitem.
Et quia predictus Willelmus Teyson ....

(9.) Gilbertus filius Reginaldi de Eltone
rapuit Edam de Crakehale in campo de
Neutoiie ; qui venit coram Justiciariis.
Et Eda non sequitur uersus eum. Et quia
per iuratores iiotum est quod predictus Gil-
bertus est cutpabilis de facto illo, ideo in
misericordia : plegii de misericordia, Ro-
gerus prepositus de Eltone, et Walterus
filius [Willelmi] de eadem.

(10.) Quedam femina inuenta fuit sub-

mersa in campo de Eglescliue ; primus iii-

uentor Galfridus le air ; venit et non Male-

Infortunium. creditur, nee nullus alius. ludicium infor-

tunium.

(11.) Patricius filius Thome de Nesham
inuentus fuit mortuus in campo de Egles-
cliue. Johannes filius Thome de Nesham

B 2

miser icordia.

Infortumum.

Infortuninm.
vj sol. deo dandi.

misericordia.

ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY III.

primus inuentor : non male creditur, set
dicunt quod malecredunt duos messores.
Et quia predictus Johannes mortuus est, et
plegii sui non essoniauerunt eum, ideo in
misericordia, scilicet Willelmus filius Thome
de Nesham, Rogerus Pays, Willelmus
pauper.

(12.) Willelmus filius Henrici de Ase-
lakeby rapuit Julianam laueroc ; et Willel-
mus venit et cogiiouit quia desponsauit earn;
et quia concordat! sunt sine licencia, ideo
in misericordia ; plegii de misericordia. . . .

(13.) Willelmus filius Henrici malecre-
ditur de morte Emme uxoris sue : captus
fuit, et missus fuit ad prisonam Dunelmi;
et deliberatus fuit coram Justiciariis per
patriam.

(14.) Alanus Molendinarius de Detone-
shal cecidit de Ecclesia eiusdem ville ita
quod obiit ; primus inuentor Adam Stute :
venit et non Malecreditur, nee nullus alius.
Indicium infortunium.

(15.) Agneta uxor Rogeri de Ditene-
shale cecidit de una carecta ita quod obiit :
nullus malecreditur. Indicium Infortu-
nium : precium equi et carete vj sol., unde
villata de Nesham Respon debit.

(16.) Quedam infaiitula inuenta fuit
mortua in campo de Hurthewith ; primus
inuentor Willelmus filius Petri : venit et
non malecreditur, nee aliquis alius.

(17.) Alanus filius Nicholai bin nan oc-
cidit Johannem filium Alduse in domo
Roberti filii Alduse, et utlagatus est in
Comitatu per sectam Cristiaiie uxoris eius.
Et quia Silvester de Derlington, tune tem-
poris vicecomes et Coronator, non atacldauit
ill os qui fuerunt in domo quando occisus
" dt, ideo in misericordia.

ASSIZE BOLL 223, 27 HENRY III. 5

(18.) Baldewinus homo Johannis de
Baillio occisus fuit in parco predict!
Johannis per utlagas : nescitur qui fuerunt ;
primus inuentor Wilielmus filius Gamelli
de Midletoiie : venit et non Malecreditur.

exigautur et
utlagentur
xxvj sol. vj d.

miser icordia.

lufortunium.

loqueudum.

Infortunium
vj d. deo dandi.

(19.) Malefactores fuerunt in Marewde,
et roberauerunt Warinum de Midletone, et
R/obertum Molendinarium, et Willelmum
filium Rogeri, et luoiiem Riueling : nescitur
qui malefactores illi fuerunt.

(20.) Walterus filius Hugonis et Adam
filius Gamelli de Eglistone malecreduntur
de latrocinio, scilicet de quadam vacca
f urata : quia subtraxeruiit se, ludicium,
exigantur et utlagentur; et habuerunt in
cattallis xxvj sol. vj d.^unde villata de Egle-
stone respondebit. Et quia villata de Egle-
ston sciuit eos esse latrones, et non cepe-
runt eos, ideo in misericordia.

(21.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
apud Stainton, et ligauerunt Sierith filiani
Gamelli, beatricem, et Enocham, et rober-
auerunt eas : nescitur qui fuerunt.

(22.) Hugo Bulmer cecidit mortuus in
campo castri Bernardi per quandam infirmi-
tatem : prima inuentrix Acelot uxor pre-
dicti Hugonis : venit et non Malecreditur.
ludicium infortunium.

(23.) Emma filia Johannis de Thorp
inuenta fuit submersa sub uilla de Queriiig-
ton ; primus inuentor Johannes de Thorp :
venit et non malecreditur. ludicium infor-
tunium ; et quia vtesium non fuit leuatum,
ideo loquendum.

(24.) Radulfus filius Walteri cecidit de
quodam equo et subinersus fuit ; primus in-
uentor Walterus pater eius : venit et non
Malecreditur, nee nullus alius. ludicium
Infortunium : precium equi vj d., unde vice-
comes Respondebit.

ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY III.

Teysa.

ij s. vj d.

Infortunium.

xx vj sol. vj d.
Teyse.

1 uiarca
deo dauda.

Misericordia.

Teyse.

deo dandi xij d.

(25.) Philippa filia Johamiis fill Robert!
submersa fuit sub villa de Geineford. In-
uentrix Cristiana de Gaineford : veiiit et
11011 Malecreditur, nee nullus alius. Indi-
cium Infortunium.

(26.) Thurchilda de langetone submer-
sit se ipsam sponte in Teysa. Matilda filia
eiusdem prima inuentrix. Catella predicte
Thurchilde ij sol. vjd., unde vicecomes
Sedberge Respondebit.

(27.) Rogerus filius Nicholai dispensa-
toris de Gainford suspensit se ipsum in
grangia Roberti de Hindeley ; primus in-
uentor Vtting seruiens predict! Roberti:
venit et non malecreditur, nee nullus alius.
Indicium inf ortunium ; et habuit in cattallis
vj sol. vj d. : precium terre anni et diei,
xx sol., unde vicecomes Respondebit.

(28.) Robertus filius Thome de Bohun
cecidit de quodam equo in Teise, et sub-
mersus; primus inuentor Willelmus Nor-
man : venit et non Malecreditur ; nee
aliquis alius. Indicium Infortunium : pre-
ciuin equi j marca, unde siluester, tune
temporis vicecomes, Respondebit. Et quia
pred ictus equs tratitus fuit per vicecomitem
et Coronatorem Galfrido de Sedlewysa et
Jolan de Morton ad habendum coram Justi-
ciariis, et illi hoc dedicunt, ideo in miseri-
cordia.

(29.) Radulfus filius Petri le Surayl iii-
uentus fuit mortuus subter quadam care eta
in campo de Persebrige ; primus inuentor
Petri pater eius : venit et non nialecreditur.
Indicium infortunium : precium equi et
carecte xij d. unde vicecomes Respondebit.

Johannes Aldinaii et

Hugo

filius

(30.)

Wlwine occiderunt Robertum de Lithe-
graines in domo Walter! filii Mathei, et f uge-
runt ad ecclesiam. Postea utlagati fuerunt
per sectam Isoude vxoris predicti Roberti.

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Appella. (31.) Emma Todde, que appellauit Ei-

cardum de Westmorland de rapo, non est
prosecuta uersus eum; et ideo predictus
Eicardus de hoc quietus, et ipsa capiatur.

(32.) Johannes films Thome de Hotton
apellat Simonem de Neulaiid quod, ubi fuit
in pace domini Episcopi in campo de Hotton
die sabati proxima ante festum sancti
Barnabe, venit ad eum et fecit ei quandam
p] again in sinistra parte capitis sui quodam
baculo quadrato. Idem apellat Eicardum
de Cunescliue et Willelmum Tekeman et
Thomam ad ecclesiam quod eaderri die et in
eodem loco uerberauerunt eum et in ausilio
fueruiit predicto Simoni, qui plagam illam
ei dedit, et quod hoc ei f ecerunt in f eloiiiam
offert disracionare per corpus suum uel per
quicquid curia domini Episcopi consideran-
dum.

Et Simon de Neuland et alii veniunt et
petunt iudicium si debeant ei Eespondere,
desicut plaga unde loquitur facta fuit quo-
dam baculo et non armis molutis. Et quia
apellum non iacet, ideo inquiratur veritas
per xij Juratores.

luratores dicunt quod predictus Jo-
hannes cecidit de equo suo et fregit capud
suum contra quandam Petram, et dicunt
quod postea predictus Simone et alii uer-
berauerunt eum, unde damnificatus fuit ad
valenciam iij solidorum. Et quia hoc ei
f ecerunt, consideratum est quod ei habere
f aciant predictos iij solidos et sint in miseri-
cordia. Et predictus Johannes filius Thome
pro falso apello mittatur Gaile.

Mem. 1. dors.
Adhuc de Sadberge.

(38.) Johannes filius Elye de Maiiefeld
apellat Alanum diaconum de Cunescliue,
quod, ubi fuit in pace domini Episcopi in
Cimiterio de Cunescliue die sanctorum Petri

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dies.

Misericordia.
loquendum de
Batello cum vero-
dicto de Hertepol.

Infortunium.

Teysa.

dies.

Quietus.

et pauli post prandium, venit ad eum et
fecit ei quandam plagam in capite quodani
baculo, et quod hoc ei fecit in feloniam,
offert etc.

Et Magister Willelinus de Maiief eld venit
et petit eum ut clericum suuin, et habet
euin ut de eo teneatur iusticia.

(34.) Quatuor homines submersi fue-
runt in niari, et inuenti fuerunt in sabulo
de Seton. Primus inuentor AdamGilewathe:
venet et non malecreditur, nee nullus alius.
ludicium infortuniuni. Et quia villata de
Seton e sepilierunt predictos iiij homines
sine visu cornatoris : ideo in misericordia.

(35.) Quidam ignotus mortuus inuentus
fuit in teysa, qui carebat uno pede et una
manu ; primus inuentor Thomas de Galewa
. . . . : venit et non rnalecreditur, nee
nullus alius. ludicium infortunium.

(36.) Alexander films Alexandri de
Breretone, retatus de morte cuiusdam homi-
nis occisi in campo de Brumtoft, captus
f uitj et plegiatus fuit usque iter Justiciario-
rum. Qui venit. Et quia loquela ista
debuit terminari apud Dunelmum, datus est
ei dies et plegiis suis, die veneris proxima
post festum sancti Petri et Pauli.

Postea venit predictus Alexander, et
poiiit se super xij Jura tores de bono. Qui
dicunt quod non est culpabilis de morte
predicti hominis occisi : ideo Quietus.

(37.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte ad
domum Ade Binnan et robauerunt eum :
nescitur qui fuerunt.

(38.) Alicia que fuit uxor Patricii de
Luttrington, que apellauit de morte pre-
dicti Patricii Tassin filium Ingerami de
Bayllol, Morantum Ingeram de Tilloley,
Deudonet et Willelmum de Queringdone,
Et Appellat Thomam filium sebine de Bolum
[de missione], venit et retraxit se, et dicit

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9

misericordia.
apud Dunelmum.

misericordia.

le misericordia.
Loquendum apud
Duuelmum.

misericordia.
misericordia.

quod non uult sequi. Et dicit quod iniuste
fecit apellum. Ideo consideratum est quod
predicta Alicia [mittatur Gaiole] ; predictus
Thomas captus fuit et traditus siluestro de
Derlmtone, qui presens est et hoc bene
concedit, et dicit quod deliberauit eum per
preceptum Episcopi, set non profert Waran-
tum : ideo in misericordia ; et alii apellati
non sunt inuenti, et ideo loquendum apud
Dunelmum.

(39.) Wimiiua filia Patricii de Cletlum,
que appellauit Johannem de Ludewrthe de
Roberia cuiusdam firraaculr, non est prose-
cuta uersus eum : ideo ipsa et plegii sui [in
misericordia], similiter Eobertus homo
Joilcni et Robertus Mainelard ; et xij Jura-
tores et villata de Cledone non presentaue-
runt apellum istud Justiciariis : ideo in
misericordia, et loquendum apud Dunelmum
de alia medietate, que non est de feodo.

(40.) J. de Beglolo, Walterus filius Hu-
gonis de Eglestone, Adam filius Gamelli de
eadern, Willelmus Belle de longa neutona,
Willelmus Carle de Hurtewrthe, et Thomas
scuffur de Nesham fugerunt : malecredun-
tur. [Ideo ad] ludicium. Exigentur per
sectam Curie. Et villata de Hurthewurthe
pro receptacione et fuga predicti Willelmi
in misericordia. Et villata de Nesham pro
fuga predicti Thome in misericordia: et
predicti Willelmus Carle et Thomas Sucfur
poterunt redire, si uoluerint inuenire plegios
de fidelitate.

(41.) Robertus speiideluue vuliierauit
Willelmum Page in campo de Dalton
quadam sagitta, et predictus Willelmus
leuauit hutesium, sed non fuit secutus ; et
quia villata de Dalton non preseiitauerunt
hoc ad Wapentagium, ideo in misericordia.

(42.) Duodecim Juratores pro pluribus
concelameiitis .

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(48.) Petri films Ade de Nesebite fuit
ligatus et robatus de vesturis suis, et inue-
nit plegios ad esse coram Justiciariis ;

misericordia. [et Petrus non venit] ; ideo ipse et plegii sui

ia misericordia, scilicet Willelmus preposi-
tus de Nesebite et Gilbertus filius Eogeri ;
et villata de Nesebite Thorp et xij Juratores

misericordia. non presentauerunt hoc : ideo in miseri-

cordia.

(44.) Walterus filius Hugonis de Egle-
stone^ Adam filius Gemelli de eadem, Willel-
mus Belle de longa Neutone, Willelmus
Carle de Hurteworthe^ et Thomas scuffur
de Nesham : pro gran^ia de Nesham, quod
loquendum. ipse fregit, omnes isti fugerunt et male-

creduntur. Indicium.

(45.) De defaltis, Archiepiscopus pro
setona; Prior Dunelmensis, Johannes de
Baillol, Thomas filius Willelmi de Stain-
tone, Johannes Bulemer, Eogerus Bertram
de Botehale, Nigellus de Rungetone, Henri-
cus de Perci, Willelmus de Memerheriner,
Willelmus de feugers, Willelmus de Perci,
Johannes filius Walteri de Aselakeby, Prior
de Hexelsham, Willelmus de Hessewell,
Henricus T>ey, Eadulfus super Teysam,
Johannes de Midletone, Eoolant Bart, Ea-
dulfus filius Willelmi, Nicholas de fareii-
dona,, Gerardus de Morton percussus cancro,
Eadulfus de Amundeuille, Hugo Persone de
Midletone, Warinus Pecche, Hedwardus de
Seuely, Henricus de baiolo avunculus domiiii
Johannis, Eobertus Marescallus domini
Johannis, Eobertus Treiner, Eogerus filius
Galfridi de Egleston, Gocelinus de WTestwic,
Eustachius de Baielo, Henricus Clericus de
Sledewise, Willelmus de Sumeruile, Eadul-
fus de Cotum, Johannes Eiueling, Bernar-
dus frater eius, qui moram f ecerunt in parti-
bus traiisniarinis per x annos, Thomas
spacch, Walterus filius Abelis,, et Hugo
filius Hamel de Hert : non uenerimt primo
misericordia. die ; ideo in misericordia.

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(46.) Simon films Henrici cle Midletoiie
imprisoiiatus fuit per Heiiricum de Neke-
toiie, tune temporis balliuum Duiiolmi, et
fuit replegiatus ad esse coram Justiciariis
per Heiiricum Deudone de Mortone, Heliam
de Burdone, Ricardum de Hartone, et Heii-
ricum filiuin Ricardi de Mortone. Simon
Quietancia. venit, et quietancia est per iudicium.

Loquendum. [An entry erased.]

(47.) Willelmus Belle, retatus de una
tunica et supertunica quas furatus fuit, ut
iuratores precise dicunt, captus fuit per
commuiiem clamorem patrie et imprisona-
tus ; et Siluester de Derlmgtoiie, tune Vice-
comes, replegiauit eum per Grilbertum de Neu-
tone et Walterum board et Walterum Coket
de eadem, licet haberent eum ad iij Wapen-
tagia, et idem Siluester liberauit eum postea
sine iudicio; et ipse presens est, et dicit
quod Eobertus films Maldrici et socii sui
J usticiarii deliberauerunt eum ; et predictus
Eobertus et Galfridus filius Galfridi pre-
sentes sunt, et ipsi et predicti xij dicunt
quod deliberauerunt eum sine Waraiito ; et
ideo loquendum.

[In a later hand.] Quod homines de Hertilpole ostendant

munimenta que ha,beiit de libertate sua.

(48.) Dies datus est liomiiiibus de Herte-
pol ad osteiidendum cartas et moiiumenta
sua quas liabent de dono domini episcopo-
rum Duiielmeiisium, die luiie proxima post
assumpcionem beate Marie apud Duiielmum,
super hoc quod Barones, milites, et alii
domini episcopi teneiites conqueruntur de
eis. Eidem habent diem ibidem de hoc quod
domiiius Episcopus debet habere apud
Hertepol Hauenatores suos.

Mem. 2.

ll[ortepol], Veredictum de Hertepol.

H[ertepolj. (49.) Heiiricus Cooperar de Hertepol, in-

ditatus per quendam probatorem, suspensus :

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Quietus. venit et non malecreditur. Indicium quie-

tus, et sit sub plegio.

(50.) Quedam Garcia scaldata fuit in

plumbo Roberti blaickline ita quod obiit;

prima inuentrix Matilda filia Willelmi filii

filii Gamelli : non venit quia mortua, et non

Infortunium malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium : pre-

ij sol. deo. cium Plumbi ij sol., unde vicecomes re-

spondebit. Et quia predicta Matilda mortua

est, et plegii sui non essoniauerunt earn de

misericordia. Morte, ideo in misericordia, scilicet Willel-

mus filius lamberti.

ij sol. deo
Infortunium.

misericordia.

(51.) Henricus flandrensis scaldatus est
in plumbo Roberti Blackline ita quod obiit :
nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium : precium plumbi ij sol. ; et quia
obiit in doino [Rogeri le grant], inuenit
plegios ad esse coram Justiciariis, et mor-
tuus est, et plegii sui non essoniauerunt
eum : ideo in misericordia, scilicet Walterus
filius Benedict! et Ricardus filius saeri.

ij sol deo dandi.

Infortunium
misericordia.

Infortunium.

(52.) Quidam Willelmus extraneus scal-
datus fuit in plumbo Willelmi de Wetelawe
ita quod obiit, et in domo stat' de Burt' ;
et inuenit plegios ad esse coram Justiciariis,
et mortuus est; et quia plegii sui non
essoniauerunt eum, ideo in misericordia,
scilicet G-ilbertus de Hornebi, Nicholaus
filius lamberti, et Johannes filius Wnot :
precium Plumbi ij sol. [vnde vicecomes
respondebit]. Et Alicia filia Johannis
Vnot fuit in domo ilia, et inuenit plegios,
etc., et mortua est, et plegii sui non essoni-
auerunt earn : ideo in misericordia, scilicet
predictus Gilbertus et Johannes.

(53.) Quedam femina Kikelot cecidit in
turlellam, sicut siccauit brasium, ita quod
obiit; prima inuentrix Agneta de'Cottone :
venit et non male creditur. ludicium
Infortunium.

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13

Infortunium.

(54.) Quedam garcia [Alicia nomine],
submersa fuit sub ripo maris ; prima inuen-
trix Isouda soror Ricardi Fullone : venit et
non malecreditur, nee nullus alius. ludi-
cium Infortunium.

Infortunium

miserieordia.

(55.) Hugo films Petri Caretarii cecidit
per quandam infirmitatem, et obiit. Prima
inuentrix Emma uxor eius : non male-
creditur, et quia mortua est et plegii sui
non essoiiiauerimt earn, ideo in misericordia,
scilicet Willelmus de smithetone et Willel-
mus Carable.

(56.) Precium cuiusdam Batelli libera-
tum Petro de Setone xij d. unde et concor-
datum, set condonatur.

H[ertepol]. (57 .) De prisis factis, dicunt quod

Siluester de Derlingtone cepit c sol. de
villata de Hertepol, et de Willelmo filio
Hugonis de eadem dimidiam marcam ; et

misericordia ^eo *n MMerioordia, et loquendum. Ideo

loquendum. summonetur, etc.

(58.) Quedam garcia Walteri Brun
cecidit in plumbo dicti Walteri et escaldata
fuit, vnde obiit ; prima inuentrix Margeria
filia Johannis, et venit et non malecreditur,
Infortunium xij d. nee aliquis alius. Indicium infortunium :
precium phimbi xij d., vnde vicecomes
Respondebit.

(59.) Gilbertus Plumbarius submersus

fuit in Mari ad Passagium per infortunium,

sicut stetit in quodam Batello -} prima

inuentrix Emma uxor eius : Venit et non

Infortunium malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium : pre-

iiijor sol. cium batelli iiij sol., vnde vicecomes

Respondebit.

H[ertepol]. (60.) Henricus le Manseil appellat

Johannem filium Vivoc quod, ubi fuit in
pace domini Episcopi in Hertepol die sancti

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Bartholomew anno coronacionis Regis Heii-
rici xxiiijto, venit ad eum et nerberauit eum,
et robauit de eo quandam hachetam, et
imprisonauit eum ; et dicit quod robauit de
eo alias res, [scilicet unum firmacillum,
vj d., et unum anulum aureum] ad valeii-
ciam dimidie marce ; et quod hoc ei fecit
nequiter et in feloniam offert. Et in
crastino, quando exiit de Prisona, duo
homines predicti Johannis ducebant eum
extra villam per duas leucas, itaque non
potuit hutesium leuare ; set,, quando dimise-
runt eum,, leuauit Hutesium apud Elmedene
et S wines tone in balliua de stoketone cor am
messoribus in campis, et postea atachiatus
fuit in Comitatu Sadberge.

H[ertepol]. Et Johannes venit et defendit feloniam,

roberiam, et totum, etc. ; et dicit quod pre-
dictus ETenricus venit in villam de Hertepole,
et stulte se portauit, ita quod gentes illius
ville habuerunt suspicioiieui de eo quod esset
malefactor, et quod per commune consilium
hominum de Hertepol captus fuit. Et bene
concedit quod inprisonauit eum, et ideo

misericordia. in misericordia : plegius de misericordia

Walterus de Eclescliue. Et quia non
leuauit hutesium, nee eodern modo fecit
apellum suum coram Justiciariis, sicut fecit

misericordia. coronatori, ideo in misericordia et cus-

todiatur.

(61.) Item de prisis factis. Siluester de

Derlingtone, vicecomes Sedberge, cepit di-

midiam marcam de Elia paruo de Giseburn

pro pannis uenditis contra asisam, viide ipse

loquendum. Eespondebit ; et ad iudicium de eo.

(62.) Item de prisis factis. Idem
siluester cepit vnam marcam de Waltero
de Munros, et de Johanne de Dam ij
loquendum. quarteria siliginis. Ideo inde loquendum.

H[ertepol]. (^0 Duo latrones capti fuerunt ultra

loquendum. Teysam, et ducti apud Dunelmum. Willel-

mus Heirun replegiauit eos, et ducit eos ad

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15

loquendum.

Hertepole; et ibi inprisonati fuerunt In
talamo predict! Willelmi per ipsum Willel-
mum, et euaseruiit; et ideo loquendum de
euasione. Et unus eorum qui euaserunt
fug-it ad ecclesiam fratrum minorum de
Hertepol et abiurauit regnum.

(64.) De Wrecco maris, dicunt quod
siluester de Derlingtone Labuit Wreccum
vnius nauis de Alnemuta, et idem habuit
Wreccum vnius nauis de De Dunewice per
Warantum Johannis filii Philippi : ideo
loquendum .

Veredictum de castro Bernardi.

Infortunium deo
dandi ij sol. vj d.
misericordia.

(65.) Quedam femina, Matilda nomine,
seruiens in castro Castri Bernardi, escaldata
fuit in plumbo ita quod obiit ; primus

inuentor Gamellus de Westwice : venit et
non malecreditur. Indicium Infortunium :
precium plumbi ij sol. vj d., vnde vicecomes
Respondebit ; et quia xij iuratores lion
habuerunt in rotulo suo primum iiiuentorem,
ideo in misericordia.

misericordia.

misericordia.

misericordia.

(66.) De uinis venditis contra assisam,
dicunt quod Walterus le Boner uendidit
uinum contra assisam; ideo in misericordia.

(67.) Gille filia alani de Bringeiihale,
que appellauit Elyam filium Godefridi de
Castro Bernardi de rapo, et eadem apellauit
Tunnoc poke, Aliciam Nunne, sibil Heirun
et Emmam copthrawer de vi ; non est
prosecuta : ideo in misericordia ; pauper
est. Et quia predictus Elias et alii atachiati
fuerunt et noii venerunt, ideo ipsi et plegii
sui in misericordia, scilicet Godel'ridus
Mercatorius, Johannes de Bristolle et Hugo
Mercenarius. Et quia Villata de castro
Bernardi 11011 presentauit hoc, ideo in
misericordia.

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223,, 27 HENRY in.

loquendum.

Veredictum Saberge per xij Juratores.

(68.) xij Juratores preseiitant quod
villata de Morton debet custodire prisonas
Episcopi captas in Manerio de Sadberge et
in alio socagio pertinente ad Wapeiitagium
sadberge, et ducere eas ubi Duel debent per
preceptum domini Episcopi vna cum aliis
que seruicium illud facere debeant, et
seruicium istud semper facere consueuit
quousque predicta villata data f uit Waltero
fratri Eadulfi sur teyse a predicto Eadulfo
fratre suo. Et post tempus illud subtraxit
predictus Walterus seruicium illud per
respectmn sibi datum de gracia balliuorum.
Dicunt et quod manerium de Aselakeby et
Eggiscliue debent illud idem seruicium ; et
de illo seruicio fuit Ricardus Episcopus
secundus seisitus die quo obiit, et post
obitum predicti Episcopi subtractum fuit
seruicium illud. Item dicunt quod Hurtwrth
et Nesham debent illud idem seruicium et
faciunt : ideo loquendum.

(69.) Alanus Warm tenet unam Caruca-
tam terre in villata de Sadberge in seriancia,
et pro seriancia ilia est Coronator in feodo,
et reddit per annum v sol. iiij d. ; et resi-
duum terre illius valet xx sol.

(70.) Siluester de Derlington, tune tem-
poris vicecomes, placitauit apud Sadberge,
et inuenit quendam falsum Galonem, qui
fuit Hawisie que fuit uxor Nicholai; que
finem fecit pro misericordia sua pro xij d. :
loquendum. i<}eo loquendum.

(71.) Hospitalis domus de Aluretone
tenet xlij acras terre in Newebigging de
dono Johannis de eadem villa, qui fuit
dominus eiusdem ; et consueuit reddere
per annum xlij d. Et Philippus Episcopus
postea relaxauit eis redditum predictum;
et ideo loquendum.

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Infortunium.

Mem. 2 dors.
Veredictum de Gatisheuid per xij Juratores.

(72.) Dicunt quod quidam Garcio doming
Ade de Perington robatus fuit de x libris
uel x marcis et vulneratus extra yillam de
Gatisheuid : nescitur quis eum rob&uit.

(73.) Eobertus filius Vttred cecidit in
aqua de Tine iuxta pontern noui castri, et
submersus fuit ; prima inuentrix Alicia
mater eius : venit et non malecreditur.
Judicium Infortunium.

misericordia.

exigatur et
utlagetur.

(74.) Eobertus Sutor inuentus fuit occisus
secus gardinum domini Episcopi de Gatis-
heuid ; primus inuentor Johannes Sutor :
venit et non malecreditur. Eeginaldus de
Corebrige eum occidit, et fugit usque
Exteldesham ; et quia villa de Gatisheuid
non habuit predictum Eeginaldum coram
Justiciariis,, ideo in misericordia. • Indicium :
Eeginaldus exigatur per sectam Curie.

Infortunium.

(75.) Willelmus Paulin de Quicham
cecidit de quad am quercu in haya de Gatis-
heuid ita quod inde obiit : null us inde
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(76.) Thomas Eobet cecidit de quadain
quercu in bosco de Vrpathe ita quod inde
obiit ; primus inuentor Elwaldus Casi :
nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium.

Infortunium
misericordia.

(77.) Quidam flandrensis escaldatus fuit
in plumbo Roger! Tannatores ita quod hide
obiit, et Eogerus atachiatus fuit ad esse
co ram Justiciariis ; et quia plegii sui non
essoniauerunt eum de morte,, ideo in miseri-
cordia : nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium
Infortunium : precium plumb! iiijor sol.
Johannes Gilet Eespondit : tempore N". de
Moles,

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(78.) Matilda filia Robert! Hoker obiit
morte subita in vico sicut iuit: primus
inuentor Rogerus Preste : venit et non
Infortunium. malecreditur. Indicium Infortunium.

Infortunium.

(79.) Isouda filia Johannis Tewe sub-
mersa fuit in fonte eiusdem Johannis :
primus inuentor Idem Johannes : venit et
non malecreditur. Indicium Infortunium.

(80.) Willelmus Peddere extraneus ro-
batus fuit de tribus marcis et dimidia in
haia de Gatisheuid et de xl vlnis de linea
tela, et vulneratus : nescitur qui fuerunt.

Infortunium
xij d. deodandi.

(81.) Matilda garcia Matilde filie Elgy
esscaldata fuit in plumbo dicte Matilde ita
quod inde obiit. Meg filia militis inuenit
earn : venit et non malecreditur ; indicium
Infortunium : precium plumbi xij d., unde
Ricardus seruiens Respondebit.

Infortunium.

(82.) Radulfus filius Ail win obiit morte
subita in Gatisheuid ; primus inuentor
Ailwinus pater eius : venit et non male-
creditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(83.) De Ecclesiis, dicunt quod Ecclesia
sancte Marie de Gatisheuid esse debet de
donacione domini Episcopi ; sed Rex, sede
vacante, dedit earn Roberto de Plesseys : et
valet xxvj marcas per annum.

(84.) De purpresturis, dicunt quod Bur-
genses de nouo Castro leuanerunt quoddam
rete in Tina erga dominum Episcopum vltra
filum aque ; et ideo loquendum.

misericordia. (85.) Latitude pannorumnonestseruata;

et ideo omnes factores panni in Gatisheuid
in misericordia.

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(86.) Matheus filius Alani de la More
fregit noctanter domum Persone de Gatis-
heuid, et asportauit albos panes : nescitur
summa ; rediat si ^oluerit, si inueniat
plegios de fidelitate.

(87.) Johannes Bercarius et utting filius
eius de domo leprosorum fugerunt pro
bidentum liuarum prepositi de Eiton furto,
et malecreduntur. Indicium, exigantur per
sectam Curie. Et quia Magister Hospicii
non habuit dictos Johannem et utting, ideo
misericordia. in misericordia.

(88.) De Kidellis, dicunt quod Alexander
Spicer, Patricius Piscator, Johannes Hake,
Huctredus stirk, Ernis piscator, Eobertus
Pickemalle, et Eogerus Hocer : ideo in
misericordia.

(89.) Eogerus Crawe et Walterus de
stanyere habuerunt Kidellum super aquas
domini Episcopi : ideo, si de cetero inueni-
antur, capiantur.

(90.) Eobertus filius Abraham inditatur
de quodam probatore, Stephano nomine :
captus fuit apud Gatisheuid, et victus est
per Duellum et suspensus. Catella dicti
Eicardi xiij sol., et Willelmus de lundone
ea recepit tempore N. de Moles. Et villata
de Gatisheuid pro receptacione eiusdem
Eoberti in misericordia.

(91.) Eogerus Sapere, inditatus per
eundem Stephanum, captus fuit per eundem
Stephanum captus fuit apud nouum castrum.
Catalla eiusdem Eogeri vj sol. xj d. Et
Willelmus de lundone eos recepit tempore
N. de moles.

(92.) Quidam Heiiricus sutor, inditatus
per eundem Stephanum, captus fuit, et
quietus per patriam.

o 2

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\reredictum de Derlingtone per xij Juratores.

(93.) De nouis placitis, dicunt quod
[Adam] filius Galfridi filii Dauid defor-
ciauit Helewisiam filiam Hun te wine ; et
Adam mortuus est, et quia plegii sui non
essoniauerunt eum de morte, ideo in mise-
ricordia ; et inquirendum qui fuerunt plegii
sui ; et quia predicta loquela non fuit pre-
loquendum. sentata ad Comitatum, ideo inde loquen-

dum.

(94.) Adam filius Persone de Derling-
tone, qui appellatus fuit per Aliciam filiam
Beatrix de Clothecrofte ; et per ipsam non
sequitur : ideo capiatur ; afiidauit : ideo
nichil de plegiis ; et Adam non venit et fuit
atachiatus, et ideo plegii sui in misericordia,
scilicet Johannes freme et adam Clericus.
Et testatum fuit quod predictus Adam
deliberatus fuit per comitatum propter de-
f ectum secte ipsius Beatrix : ideo loquendum.

(95.) Agneta de Rodeby, que appellauit
Radulfum Baret deforciantem, non venit ;
afiidauit : ideo nichil de plegiis suis, et ipsa
capiatur ; et conuictum est per xij Juratores
quod predictus Eadulfus deforciauit earn :
ideo custodiatur : postea inuenit plegios de
misericordia sua, scilicet Widonem Ahelium
et Willelmum de Tremedon.

(96.) Matilda Grete, que appellauit que
appellauit Eogerum filium Astini de rapo,
npn venit : ideo capiatur ; afiidauit, et ideo
nichil de plegiis ; et conuictum est per xij
Juratores quod deforciauit earn : ideo dictus
Rogerus custodiatur ; et quia villata de
Derlingtone non presentauit loquelam istam
ad comitatum,, et vtesium fuit leuatum, ideo
misericordia. in misericordia.

(97.) Eicardus Wiket habuit infirmi-
tatem caducam per vij annos; et accidit

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quod hospitauit in domo vtting fitel, ipso
absente et uxore sua nesciente de infirmitate
ilia ; inuentus fuit mortuus in lecto suo
mane ; et quia sepultus fuit sine visu coro-
natoris, ideo Burgus in misericordia.

(98.) Helewisa quondam uxor Galfridi
filii Dauid, manens in burgo de Derlingtone,
que tenet liberum tenementum extra
Burgum, esse debet in donacione Episcopi.

(99.) Terra que fuit Roberti filii Meldredi
est escaeta domini Episcopi, et valet per
annum vij sol. viij d., et est in manu domini
Episcopi.

(100.) De latitudine pannorum, dicunt
quod non seruatur sicut prouisum fuit, et
preceptum est quod scire faciant nomina
eorum qui uendiderunt contra assisam.

(101.) Matilda filia Walteri de Derliiig-
tone appellauit Thomam filium Hugonis de
eadem quod ipse rapuit earn, confiteiitem se
11011 esse puellam, in domo suo. Et Thomas
non veiiit : ideo ipsi et plegii sui in miseri-
cordia, scilicet Johannes stut et Ricardus
flute; et quia burgus de Derlington non
presentauit loquelam istam Justiciariis, ideo
in misericordia.

(102.) Rogerus de Esse obiit morte
subita in domo sua ; priina inuentrix
Agneta uxor eius : veiiit et non male-
creditur ; iudicium Iiif ortunium.

(103.) Raiiulfus verarius et Petrus films
Persone burgaueruiit Cameram Agnete de
Derlingtone et asportauerunt quandam
sumam pecuiiie ; discederunt de villa de
Derlingtone. Postea rediit predictus
Petrus cum predicti pecuiiia, et Raiiulfus
retraxit se. Et quia Petrus manens est

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Colmo Coco, et predictus Ranulf us inanens
est in partibus austral ibus, et non male-
creclitur de eis de aliis rebus, ideo hide
loquendum.

Infortunium.

Infortuniuin.
xd.

Mem. 3.
Veredictum de Esingtona per xij Juratores.

(104.) Quidam Garcifer extraneus in-
uentus fuit mortuus in bladis de Hotone ;
primus inuentor Thomas Lung: venit et
non malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(105.) Quidam homo inuentus fuit sub-
mersus inter Daldeii et Seham. Primus
inuentor Henricus de Galewaie : venit et
non malecreditur. ludicium infortunium :
habuit in bur so suo x d. et ij paris , unde
Galfridus seruiens respondebit.

(106.) Thomas de Esigtone iecit baculum
suum ad boues suos, et baculum resortiuit
et percussit nlium suum in Capite ita quod
obiit. Idem Thomas captus fuit et impri-
sonatus, et inuenit plegios ad esse coram
Justiciariis ; et venit. Et Juratores dicunt
quod predictus Thomas percussit filium
suum per inf ortunum et non per iram neque
per athiam. Et predictus Thomas traditur
in custodiam Constabularii castri, quousque
Justiciarii locuti fuerint cum domino Epis-
copo. Postea inuenit predictus Thomas
plegios ad standum recto, si quis uersus
eum loqui voluerit, scilicet Willelmum de
Hessewelle et Jordan um de Aldene.

Infortunium.

(107.) Semannus Bacheler et Eicardus
Niper submersi fuerunt in Wer. Inuentor
semanni Cecilia uxor eius. Inuentor'
Ricardi Emma mater eius : veniunt et non
inalecreduntur. Judicium Infortunium.

Infortuniuni.
iij sol.

loquendum.

Infortunium.
iij sol.

mise

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23

misericordia.

(108.) Thomas films Eanulfi Corn sub-
mersus fuit apud Ether acres per infor-
tuniuin, quod cecidit de quodam equo ;
primus inuentor Eanulfus pater eius : venit
et non malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium : precium equi iij sol., vnde vice-
comes Respondebit. Et Eobertus filius
Arnald, qui equitauit super eundem ecuni
cum predicto Thoma, et inuenit plegios ad
esse coram Justiciariis, et mortuus est ; et
quia plegii sui non essoniauerunt eum de
Morte, ideo in misericordia, Eanulfus Corn
et Thomas filius Nigelli.

(109.) Hugo Basset et quidam Garcio
nomine Franceys ibant cum canibus uersus
boscum, et canes euaserunt de manibus
predicti francissci ; et Hugo cepit quandam
Petram et putauit percuttere canem, et
percussit predictum franceys ita quod infra
tres septimanas obiit; et Hugo fugit.
ludicium,, interogetur in Comitatu per
sectam Episcopi, et loquendum est cum.

Catalla predicti Hugonis x s., vnde G. de
Akesekes Eespondebit. Et idem Hugo
habuit xij acras, quas episcopus habet in
manu sua.

(110.) Quidam fromundus de Seham
intrauit mare cum quodam batello, et sub-
mersus fuit per tempestatem. Prirna In-
uentrix Cecilia uxor eius : venit et non male-
creditur. Judicium Infortunium. Precium
batelli iij sol., unde vicecomes Eespondebit.
Eicardus Cusiii, Adam filius eius, Adam
homo Capellani, Jordanus de Setone, et
Galfridus filius H. de Galewaht' [qui
fuerunt in batello], inuenerunt plegios ad
esse coram Justiciariis ; et Eicardus, Jor-
danus et Galfridus veniunt et non male-
creduntur: ideo quieti; et Adam filius
Eicardi et Adam mortui sunt, et plegii sui
non essoniauerunt eos de Morte : ideo in
misericordia, scilicet predicti Eicardus,
Jordanus, et Galfridus.

24 ASSIZE BOLL 223, 27 HENRY in.

Infortunium. (HI-) Elyas de Kellawe acoriatus fuit

in campis de Kellawe per frigus ; prima
inueiitrix Cecilia vxor eius : venit et non
malecreditur. Et Walterus de Hessewelle
in Windegate, a cuius domo exiuit, atach-
iatus fuit ad esse coram Justiciariis ; et
mortuus est, et quia plegii sui non essonia-

misericordia. uerunt eum de morte ideo in inisericordia,

scilicet Robertus de Garmundeseye in
Windegate, et Willelmus faber de eadem.

Infortunium.

(112.) Margareta filia Johannis Carpen-
tarii submersa fuit in fossato ante domum
patris sui; prima inuentrix Cecilia mater
eius : venit et non malecreditur. Indicium
Infortunium.

(113.) Rogerus de Lintingtone submer sus
fuit sub aula de Beutroue : primus inuentor
quidam Garcio Scoticus, mortuus. Indicium

Infortunium. Infortunium. Et simon seruiens Episcopi,

scilicet homo Galfridi, qui fuit ad sepul-
turam predicti Rogeri, non fecit inquisi-
cionem quomodo submersus fuit: ideo in

inisericordia, misericordia ; et villate de Crocestail,

Schinecliue, Trillesdene, et Brunne non
presentauerunt loquelam istam vicecomiti :

misericordia. ideo in misericordia.

(134.) Adam de sChineclife fecit quendam
batellum, et, sicut debuit subleuare batellum,
Cecidit super eum ita quod obiit infra tres
dies sequentes. Et Radulfus Molendinarius,
Johannes Molendinarius, et Reginaldus
Molendinarius, et Alanus Bateman, qui
fuerunt cum predicto Ada, veniunt et noil

Infortunium. malecreduntur. ludicium Infortunium. Et

quia villate de Schinecliue, vetere Dunelmo,
Eleuete, et Schireburne, et xij Juratores
non presentauerunt predictis atach

misericordia. coram Justiciariis, ideo in miseri-

cordia ; precium batelli, v sol. : dati sunt
pro deodando Nicholao vicario de sancto
Osewaldo.

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(115.) Quidam extraneus inuentus fuit

submersus in wera iuxta Pontem de Schine-

cliue ; primus inuentor Radulfus Porcarius :

venit et 11011 malecreditur. ludicium In-

lufortunium. fortunium.

(116.) Alicia filia Reginaldi de Hesse-
welle appellat Willelinum Page de Eadem,
quod ipse nequiter et contra pacem domini
Regis et Episcopi venit ad earn die sabati
proxima post festum sancti Cuhtberti post
prandium in campis de Hessewelle, et rapuit
earn ; et quod hoc fecit nequiter offert, etc.
Et Willelmus venit, et per licenciam curie
concordatus est cum predicta Alicia, et
xx sol. dabit xx solidos pro licencia concordandi.

Et est concordacio talis quod predictus
Willelmus earn desponsabit, et afiidauit earn
coram Justiciariis. Plegii de xx solidis,
Walterus de Ludewrthe et Willelmus Bren-
newate.

(117.) Agneta filia Roberti Molendinarii

submersa fuit in Wera sub Pellowe; primus

inuentor Robertus Moleiidinarius : venit et

Infortunium. 11011 malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(118.) Samson, de Wilecestre est Male-
capiatur. factor viuariorum. Judicium : capiatur si

inueniatur.

(119.) Alaiius filius Ricardi de Hotone
appellat Hamonem seruientem domini Bri-
an iii filii Alani de Hurdewrht, quod, ubi
fuit in pace domini Regis et Episcopi in
Mora de Hotone die sancti Johannis Bap-
tiste, anno coiisecracionis Ricardi Episcopi
secundi nono, ante horam prime venit et
ad eum et fecit ei nequiter et in felonia
quandam plagam in capite quadam hachia,
et quod robauit de eo duas marcas argenti,
et hoc offert disracionare, etc.

Idem apellat Leuenard de Hurdewrth
deforciantem, quod eadem die, eadem hora,
et in eodem loco venit ad eum et fuit in

26 ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY m.

ausilium predicto Hamoni, qui plagam illam
ei fecit.

Alanus le franceys appellat Willelmum
Hund, quod eadem hora, eadem. die, et in
eodem loco fecit ei quandam plagam in
capite, et de robaria x solidorum.

Radulf us filius Hugonis appellat quendam
Nigellum, qui mortuus est, de quadam plaga
et Roberia xx solidorum.

Robertus filius Alicie apellat Galfridum
filium [Ricardi] eodem modo de uerberacione
et de roberia dimidie marce.

Johannes Ker appellat Thomam filium
Ede de quadam plaga quam ei fecit in
capite et de roberia xx solidorum.

Et Hamone, Willelmus hund, et omnes
alii appellati, preter Nigellum, qui mortuus
est, veniunt et dicunt quod non tenentur
eis Respondere, desicut apellant eos per
uerba f elonie et robererie et non leuauerunt
hutesium nee fecerunt sectam sufficientem,
nee plage per quas apella formantur sunt
aparentes ; et de hoc petunt ludicium.

Et Alanus et omnes alii appellatores
veniunt et bene concedunt quod non leua-
uerunt Hutesium ; set dicunt quod quesiti
fuerunt balliuis domini Episcopi apud
Dunelmum, et ibi monstrauerunt plagas
suas in pleno Comitatu. Et quia appellum
non iacet, consideratum est quod omnes
appellati quieti sint de appello, et Alanus
et alii appellatores pro falso appello in
misericordia. misericordia, et custodiantur ; et inquiratur

Veritas per xij Juratores. Qui veniunt et
dicunt quod predicti Alanus et alii appella-
tores Verberati fuerunt et aliqui eorum
vulnerati; sed dicunt quod nulla robaria
eras. ibi f acta fuit, nee hutesium leuatum ; et

dicunt quod damnificati fuerunt ad valen-
ciam xij sol.^ et predictus Hamoii et leuenard
satisfacient predicto Alano de v sol., et
Godefridus filius Nigelli et Robertus frater
eius et Alanus filius Nigelli et Adam filius
Normamii satisfacient predicto Radulfo filio
Hugonis de iiij sol. Et Willelmus Hund et

misericordia.

misericordia.

Infortunium.

xx sol.

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Robertus frater eius satisfacient alano le
franceys de ij sol., et Thomas filius Ede
satisfaciet Johanni Ker de xij d. Et Hamon
seruiens Willelmus hund et omnes alii
apellati in misericordia; et leuenard, Ro-
bertus filius Wariiii, Adam filius Normanni,
et Adam filius Nigelli, et Godefridus filius
eiusdem, Robertus filius simonis et Alanum
filius simonis mortuus non essoniatus, et
Ricardus pater predicti Galefridr, Henricus
bulur et Ricardus Crakepol, qui apellati
fuerunt de forcia, in misericordia, et vice-
comes Respondebit de plegiis. Et simon
filius Gilberti, qui appellauit Walterum
[Werre], non venit: ideo ipse et plegii sui
in misericordia, scilicet Wydo de Hottone
et Robertus filius Alicie ; et predictus Gil-
bertus capiatur.

(120.) Quidam Garcio Rogerus et quedam
puella Matilda inuenti fuerunt in sablone
de Weremue. Inuentores Johannes lung,
Agneta mater predicte puelle : venerunt et
non malecreduntur. Judicium Infortunium.
Et p

(121.) Homines de Tremedone, scilicet
homines Prioris de Giseburne, arcerunt
turbas hominum domini Brianni filii Alani
de Hurdewrth in mora de Hurdewrthe in
aurora diei odio et athia et ex proposito :
ideo in misericordia. Postea venerunt et
fiiiem fecerunt pro misericordia sua pro
xx sol. per plegium prioris de Giseburne, et
satisfacient hominibus domini Brianni de
dampiiis suis.

(1 22.) Rogerus filius Thome de Corneford
rapuit Aliciam de Esigtone, que tune f uit
etatis vij aniiorum. Et predictus Rogerus
captus fuit et ductus apud Duiielmum et
imprisonatus, et replegiatus usque ad iter
Justiciariorum .

(123.) Quedain infantula Alicia, etatis

ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY III.

misericordia.

Infortunium.

loquendum.

exigetur.

misericordia.

misericordia.

unius annij combusta fuit in quadam domo
de Mortone ; primus Inuentor Ricardus films
Roberti de Heseldene : non venit quia
mortuus esfc ; et quia plegii sui non essonia-
uerunt eum, ideo in misericordia, scilicet
Walterus films Galfridi et Ricardus de
Croxtelle, manentes in morton aud . . :
nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium.

(124.) Walterus fermur sedit ad mensam
Nigelli de Rungetone in domo predicti
Nigelli, et obiit : nullus inde malecreditur ;
et quia loquela presentata fuit ad Comi-
tatum, et Henricus de Neketone et Gerardus
seruiens Coronatoris non atachiauerunt
dictum Nigellum, in cuius domo hoc accidit,
nee illos qui fuerunt in domo ilia, Ideo inde
loquendum.

(125.) Syerith filia Henrici Molendinarii
appellat Gilbertum de Hoton de rapo.
Gilbertus subtraxit se, et ideo non fuit
atachiatus. Et predicta Syerith non fecit
sufficientem sectam. Et quia Juratores
dicunt quod predictus Gilbertus fecit f actum
illud, exigetur in Coinitatu per sectani
Episcopi.

(126.) Walterus Poket inuentus fuit
mortuus in grangia Radulfi filii Frenian. ;
primus inuentor idem Radulfus filius Fre-
nian, qui morfcuus est; et quia plegii sui
non essoniauerunt predictum Radulfum,
ideo in misericordia, Scilicet Thomas filius
Ricardi j Kar . . .] et Willelmus Chapeleyn.
Et quia villate de Cassorp, Scaldeford,
Ludewrth, et Schireburne presentauerunt
ad comitatum primum inuentorem Radul-
fum filium Freman, et xij Juratores pre-
sentauerunt quandam Julianam Inueiitricem,
ideo in misericordia.

(127.) Agiieta vxor Thome de Oahtorp
oppressa fuit in quodarn niarlero ; prima

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29

misericord ia.

misericordia.

Infortunium.

dimidia marca.

misericordia.

Quietus.

Quietus.

inuentrix Ligna uxor Robert! filii Turkil :
non venit, quia de nouo peperit; et quia
plegrii sui non habuerunt earn coram Justi-
ciariis, ideo in misericordia, scilicet Willel-
mus Prest, Robertus filius Turchil : nullus
hide male. Indicium Infortunium. Et
quia xij iuratores non presentauerunt quod
quidam alanus fuit in marlero cum predicta
Agneta, ideo in misericordia.

(128.) Quedam Emma suspendit se ipsam
in Camera sua; primus inuentor Ricardus
filius predicte Emme : venit et non male-
creditur. Indicium Infortunium. Nichil
de cattallis, quia desponsata fuit.

(129.) Quidam Baldewinus in moreslawe
percussus fuit pede cuiusdam equi in domo
Willelmi seruientis ita quod obiit : precium
equi dimidia marca, unde Nigellus de Runge-
tone Respondebit; et quiavillata de Mores-
lawe presentauerunt quod Alaiius de Walle-
seiide debuit Respondere de predicta dimidia
marca, ideo in misericordia.

( 1 30.) t Galf ridus de Hessewelle inditatus
fuit per Stephanum de Tremedone proba-
torem, et captus et replegiatus fuit veniendi
coram lusticiariis, et postea captus fuit cum
blado furato, Scilicet ad valorem duorum
denariorum; et predictus Galfridus con-
cessit in Comitatu quod furatus fuit hoc
bladuni. xij Juratores dicunt quod non
malecredunt predictum Galfridum in aliqua
re nee de indicacione predicti probatoris,
nisi tantummodo de predicto blado furato,
et ideo quietus est ; set preceptum est quod
non inueiiiatur magis in terra Episcopi, nisi
per licenciam domini Episcopi.

(131.) Willelmus de Sunderlund inditatus
per eundem probatorem. Qui venit coram
Justiciariis et ponit se super xij Juratores
de bono et malo, qui dicunt quod fi delis est :
ideo Quietus.

30

xij d.
Infortunium.

Infortunium.

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(132.) Quidam puer opressus fuit in
silkeswrth per rotam molendini equitarii ;
primi inuentores stephanus homo domine,
Alanus homo Gamelli, Edolf de Vrpath,
Galfridus Sins, et Alicia filia Gonnoc : non
malecreduiitur. Judicium Infortunium :
precium rote xij d., vnde vicecomes Re-
spondebit.

(133.) Eda filia Matilde de West Herig-
tone opressa fuit in quodam Marlero de
West Reinigtone. Inueiitor eius Osbertus
filius Cecilie : venit et non malecreditur.
Indicium Infortunium.

ij sol.

(134.) lueta filia Ricardi Bachererii
oppressa fuit sub carecta patris sui ; primus
inuentor Ricardus Bernard : venit et non
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium : pre-
cium carecte ij sol., vnde vicecomes Re-
spondebit.

xij d.

Mem. 3, dors.

(135.) Gilbertus de Heseldene, Stephanus
Gumare de eadem, Willelmus filius simonis
de Houton submersi fuerunt de quodam
batello in Mari apud Esigtone. Tnuentores
Gamellus filius Simonis, Agneta de Hesel-
dene, et Radulfus Gurnay : veniunt et non
malecreduntur. Indicium Infortunium :
precium batelli xij d., vnde vicecomes Re-
spondebit.

(136.) Simon filius Gereberti de Hetone,
qui appellauit Walterum le Wite de quadam
plaga quam ei fecit in sinistra manu quadam
Hachia, non est prosecutus : ideo ipse et
plegii sui in misericordia, Scilicet Robertus
filius Alicie ; et appellatus mortuus est, et
quia plegii sui non essoniauerunt eum, ideo
in misericordia.

misericordia.

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(137.) Hamon de Hotone, qui appellauit
Eadulfum filium Hugonis de pace, etc., de
quadam plaga quam ei fecit, non venit nee
est prosecutus : ideo ipse capiatur, et plegii
sui in misericordia, scilicet Willelmus de
Wiretoftre et Eicardus filius eius.

(138.) Idem Hamo, qui appellauit Wi-
donem de Hotone de precepto, non est pro-
secutus ; et wido mortuus est, et quia plegii
sui 11011 essoniauerunt eum, ideo in miseri-
cordia.

(139.) Idem Hamo, qui appellauit de
forcia Johannem Ker, Thomam fratrem
eius, Gilbertum fratrem eius, Alanum filium
Eicardi, Alanum Gallicum, Gilbertum filium
Hugonis, Eobertum et Eobertum filios Alicie
vidue, Eobertum Macke, Gilbertum filium
Willelmi, simonem filium Geroldi, Gilbertum
Glede, utting Tod, Eobertum filium eius,
Eobertum filium ade, Eadulfum le Cribler,
Thomam filium Willelmi lelung, Eicardum
filium Eoberti Ker, Adam Chaupeneys,
Thomam filium Osberti, Eobertum litelchid,
Eicardum de Herte, Willelmum le fautur,
Adam Glede, Thomam Dreng seruientem,
Widonem de Heton, Willelmum de aula,
Gilbertum filium eius, Gregorium filium
Syerith, Galfridum de Holum, Thomam
filium Eogeri filii archilli, Gilbertum filium
Walteri le felun de Schurnenton, et Gilber-
tum filium Willelmi filii Brunnolle, non est
prosecutus : ideo ipse et plegii sui in miseri-
cordia, scilicet Johannes Hansard et philip-
pus de la leye.

(140.) De hiis que esse debent in cus-
todia domini Episcopi, dicunt quod nigellus
de Eungetone habet filium et heredem
Johannis filii Walteri de scruruetone per
Johannam filium Philippi : terra eius valet
per annum iiijor marcas.

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(141.) Bicardus filius Galfridi cte Heppe-
done fuit in custodia domiiii Episcopi, set
Adam de merley eum habuit in custodia sua
et terrain suam, nesciunt quo Waranto :
terra eius valet per annum xj marcas et
dimidiam.

(142.) Robertus filius Alexandri de Hel-
tone est in custodia domiiii Episcopi : terra
eius ualet per annum xx marcas.

(143.) Henricus filius Conani est in cus-
todia domini Episcopi : dominus Robertas
de Danull eum habuit per Alexandrum de
Heltone : terra eius valet vj marcas.

(144.) Domina Matilda relicta Alexandri
de Heltone est in donacione domini Episcopi
et Maritanda : terra eius valet per annum
xl marcas.

(145.) Isouda de Applingdene est in
donacione domini Episcopi : terra eius valet
per annum xl solidos.

(146.) Eua uxor Wydonis de Hotone
esse debet in donacione domini Episcopi :
terra eius valet x solidos.

(147.) Custancia uxor Johannis de
Holum et ymania uxor Gilberti de Holum
est in donacione domini Episcopi : terra
eius valet xx s., et terra predicte Custancie
ij marcas.

(148.) Alicia de Thornlawe est in dona-
cione domini Episcopi et est maritanda :
terra eius valet viij marcas.

(149.) Juliana relicta Willelmi Harpin
esse debet in donacione domini Episcopi, et
est Maritata Emerico filio Archidiaconi per
Nicholaum de Moles : terra eius valet
c solidos.

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(150.) Mariota filia Rogeri de Wytewell
et sibilillia [soror] eius esse debent in
donacione domini Episcopi. Robertus de
Cliford duxit in uxorem mariotain per
patrem predicte Mariote, et sibilia est
vidua : terre earum valent ij marcas.

(151.) Cristiana relic ta dicti Rogeri
debet esse in custodia domini Episcopi, et
est maritata Willelmo de Harrope, set
nesciunt per quern : terra eius valet j
marcam.

(152.) Agneta uxor Eeginaldi Basset est
in donacione domini Episcopi : terra eius
valet xl solidos.

(153.) Agneta Prentute de Magna lume-
leye est in donacione domini Episcopi :
terra eius valet per annum dimidiam
marcam.

(154.) Auicia de Herigtone est in dona-
cionem domini Episcopi: terra eius valet
per annum dimidiam marcam.

(155.) De Ecclesiis que esse debent de
donacione domini Episcopi, dicunt quod
Ecclesia sancti Nicholai in Dunelmo debet
esse in donacione domini Episcopi : quidam
Romanus nomine Ottobone tenet predictam
Ecclesiam per dominum Regem.

(156.) Ecclesia de Wermue esse debet
de donacione domini Episcopi. Magister
Willelrnus de segefeld earn tenet de dono
Ricardi Episcopi secundi.

(157.) Walterus de Ludewrthe fecit

quandam purpresturam super dominum

Episcopum. Et habet diem ad Responden-

dielune. dum de hoc, die lune scilicet in crastino

translacionis sancti Thome.

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(158.) Ecclesia de Essingtone debet "esse
de donacione domini Episcopi. Johannes
de Rnmeseie earn tenet de dono domini
Ricardi Episcopi secundi : vicaria de Kellawe
esse debet de donacione domini Episcopi.

(159.) Ecclesia deHoctone esse debet in
donacione domini Episcopi. Galfridus de
Tuarfe earn tenet de dono Regis Johannis.

misericordia.

(160.) De defaltis, dicunt quod Brianus
filius Alani, Willelmus Basset., Willelmus de
Beuerlaco, Robertus de Wateuille, ' Matilda
de Hettone, Agneta de Fencer, Cristiana de
White welle, Thomas Capellanus de White-
welle, et villata de parua Kellawe non
uenerunt primo die: ideo in misericordia;
et Magister Johannes de Tinemuta pro
defalta in misericordia.

loquendum.

(161.) De Mensuris statutis et luratis,
dicunt quod men sure bladi non seruantur
in Dunelmo, nee assisa de latitudine pan-
norum, et ideo loquendum. Item dicunt
quod assisa de vinis non est seruata in
Dunelmo, et ideo loquendum.

(162.) Thomas filius Elie de Tornelawe,
Petrus filius Roberti de eadem, Johannes
Man de eadem, et Gilbertus filius Simonis
de eadem vulnerauerunt Walterum de Stoc-
tone ita quod inde obiit, et Thomas et alii
subtraxerunt se. ludicium, exigantur per
sectam Curie. Catalla predicti Gilberti
xx sol., unde Galfridus de Akeseles Re-
spondebit.

(163.) Rogerus Hansard seruiens de
Winde Gate Vulnerauit Radulfum Vnder-
side de Hamsterlege ita quod inde obiit.
ludicium, exigatur per sectam Curie.

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Veredictum de Derlingtone, scilicet
de balliua.

(164.) Walterus Vitulus et Johannes
Hellebule submerserunt Walterum Stiward
n skyren ad pontem de Halutone nequiter,
et fugerunt et vtlagati fuerunt in Comitatu
per sectam Imanie vxoris predicti Walteri ;
primus inuentor Willelmus filius predicti
Walteri : venit et non malecreditur. Et quia
villata de Bermetone non habuit predictos
Walterum et Johannem coram Justiciariis,
misericordia. ideo in misericordia. Catella predicti Wal-

teri c sol. Catalla predicti Johannis xxxj
sol. Nicholaus de Moles ea habuit.

(165.) Galfridus de Carletone submersus
fuit in Teisam ; primus inuentor adam
Bateman : venit et non malecreditur. ludi-
cium Infortunium : precium equi de quo
cecidit, iij sol., vnde simon Hostiarius
Kespondebit.

(166.) Alanus Halkerbain de Dentone
occidit Thomam Bradheuid inter Derling-
tone et Kokertone : primus inuentor Adam
Punder, qui mortuus est ; et quia plegii sui

misericordia. non essoniauerunt eum, ideo in misericordia,

scilicet simon de Bondegate.

Et quia villata de Denton non habuit

super Wapentagium. predictum Alanum coram Justiciariis, ideo
in misericordia. Et Emma vxor predicti
Thome, que fecit sectam in comitatu uersus

misericordia. predictum alanum, non uenit, ideo in miseri-

cordia : pauper est.

(167.) Willelmus Castelman obiit de

morte subita in lecto suo in domo Eandulfi

filii Hulf e ; primus inuentor Willelmus filius

Eadulfi : venit et non malecreditur. ludi-

Infortunium. cium Infortunium.

(168.) Eogerus Hatte de Blake welle
occidit Robertum filium Willelmi sutoris
in Blakewelle et fugit ; primus inuentor

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miserioordia.

misericordia.
custodiatur.

misericordia.

Willelmus pater eius : venit et non male-
creditur. Et quia villata de Blakewelle non
leuauit Hutesium nee cepit eum, ideo in
misericordia. Catalla predicti Rogeri xvj
sol., quos Johannes filius Philippi habuit.
Et quia xij Juratores dixerunt quod Ricar-
dus Episcopus secundus habuit predictos
xvj sol., et Johannes filius Philippi eos
habuit, ideo in misericordia.

(169.) Emma vxor Alaiii filii Radulfi
[de kokerton] combusta fuit in domo suo ;
primus inuentor Eustachius faber cle domino
R. Anerceby venit : ideo ipse et plegii sui
in misericordia, scilicet Robertus loie de
Kokerton et Johannes ad Pontem. Et quia
xij Juratores et villata de Kokertone pre-
sentauerunt falsum inuentorem, ideo in
misericordia, et Radulfus filius Radulfi de
Kokertone, falsus inuentor, custodiatur.

(170.) Alicia filia Ade Gagot submersa
fuit in stangno Molendini de Halutone;
prima inuentrix Agneta mater eius: non
venit : ideo ipsi et plegii sui in misericordia,
scilicet Adam vir eius et Bernardus de
Hal we ton. Et quia villata de Halwetone
presentauerunt falsum inuentorem, scilicet
Adam patrem predicte Alicie submerse,
ideo in misericordia. Et Adam venit et
custodiatur.

(171.) Quidam puer etatis vnius diei
submersus fuit in skireii. Inuentrix luetta
filia Thome de Oxenhale : venit et non
malecreditur.

misericordia.
vj d.

(172.) A.ntegone filia Gilberti de Thike-
ley cecidit in vno kimelin de Gru et escal-
data fuit ita quod obiit hide infra xv dies ;
primus inuentor Adam cum arcu, qui mor-
tuus est; et quia plegii sui non essoniauerunt
eum, ideo in misericordia, scilicet Henricus
de Stayntone : precium kimelin vj d., vnde
vicecomes Respondebit.

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(173.) Willelmus sutor de Hewrht sub-
mersus f uit in skiren. Inuentrix Alicia vxor
eius : venit et non malecreditur. ludicium
Infortunium. Infortmiium.

(174.) Willelmus de Prestone suspendit
seipsum ; primus inuentor Adam filius
sabine : venit et non malecreditur. ludicium

Infortunium. Infortunium. Catalla eius xviij marce,

quas [Henricus de] Neketon habuit; et

loquendum. ideo loquendum.

(175.) Galfridus filius Johannis Carpen-

tarii de Rikenhale [submersus fuit] inter

Molendinum de Hewrthe et Molendinum

de Acle. Inuentrix Juliana Swale : venit et

Infortunium. non malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(176.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte

ad domum Alani vaccarii de Wodum, et

occiderunt Alanum filium Willelmi Brittine.

Et quia villata de Wodum presentauit

loquendum. inuentorem ubi non debuit, ideo loquendum.

(177.) Thomas longus de Acle occidit
Willelmum stiuur, et fugit et vtlagatus est
in Comitatu per sectam uxoris predicti
Willelmi ; et quia villata de Acle non habuit
predictam Thomam coram Justiciariis, ideo
in misericordia.

eras. (178.) Agneta uxor Willelmi de Bra-

ferton percussit Alanum filium predicti
Willelmi quodam baculo ita quod infra
ix dies obiit; et Agneta venit. Et inqui-
sicio facta est per xij luratores et iiij01 vil-
latis, qui dicunt quod lis et contencio fuit
inter eos, et predictus Alanus percussit earn,
et ilia per timorein quern habuit de predicto
Alano fugit in came ram suam, et ipse
Alanus prosecutus fuit et vi uoluit aperire
hostium Camere, et predicta Agneta, aperi-
endo hostium et se defendendo, percussit
euin in capite quadam claua eris ita quod
infra ix dies sequentes obiit; quia dicunt

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quod predictus Alanus insidiabatur ei post
duos dies priinos sequentes cum quadam
liachia ....

Johannes filius Willelmi de Brafertone
appellat eandem Agnetam de morte predict!
alani fratris sui, et hoc offert .... prout
Curia considerabit. Et quia conuictum est
quod predicta Agneta capta f uit per sectam
Episcopi .... quod predictus Alanus retauit
earn de morte sua antequam obiit, con-
sideratum est quod apellet.

exigatur.

Infortuuiura.

lufortuniura.

Infortunium.

Infortunium.
marca.

Mem. 4.
Adhuc de Derlingtone.

(179.) Walterus stute de Sokebume
occidit Hugonem prepositum de eadem.
Cattalla predicti Walteri ij marce : liberate
fuerunt Nicholas de Moles ; et quia nullus
secutus fuit mortem predicti Hugonis, Ideo
exigatur in Comitatu per sectam Curie.

(180.) Thomas de Hospifcali de Alureton
inuentus fuit mortuus in campo de Miderige.
Inuentor Henricus Kele : venit et non male-
creditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(181 .) Hutting de Kempel obiit de morte
subita in Molendino de Kempel ; primus
inuentor Eeginaldus de Neubiging : venit et
non malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(182.) Gamellus Acarii de Cundum obiit
de Morte subita in mora de Cumdone.
Inuentor Thomas de Cundum : venit et non
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(183.) Equus Bartholomei Capellani
occidit garcionem predicti Bartholomei.
Inuentor Johannes filius Eustachii de West-
aclent: venit et non malecreditur. ludicium
Infortunium : preciuni equi 3 marca, vnde
senescallus respondebit.

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exigatur.

(184.) Ricardus Russel occidit Willel-
mum Cappe de Aluertone et fugit ; primus
inuentor Robertas Prest ; venit et non
malecreditur ; et Ricardus exigatur per
sectam Curie. Et Beatrix vxor predicti
Willelmi appellauit Robertum de Nunnewic
de Precepto, et Robertus ponit se supei
luratam de hoc. luratores dicunt quod
non malecredunt eum, et ideo consideratum
est quod Robertus inde quietus et Beatrix
custodiatur.

Infortunium.

(185.) Galfridus films Willelmi Gret-
heuid de Brun inuentus fuit mortuus in
campo de Tudhou ; primus inuentor Willel-
mus Gaterer : venit et non malecreditur.
ludicium infortunium.

Infortunium.

custodiatur.

j marca.
iiij li.

(186.) Robertus Baifot inuentus fuit
mortuus in veteri parco de Auclent ; primus
inuentor Robertus Bredde : uenit et non
malecreditur. ludicium infortunium.

(187.) Beatrix filia Johannis fabri de
Auclent submersa fuit in Gaweles ; primus
inuentor Johannes pater eius : venit et non
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(188.) Willelmus films Normanni de
Escum furatus fuit xj ouos que fuerunt
Rogeri filii Willelmi et Petronille de eadem.
Et Johannes Paulin messarius de Auclent
missus fuit ad capiendum eum ; et per stul-
ticiam predicti Johannis euasit, quia pre-
munitus fuit per Willelmum filium Huberti ;
et Johannes venit et non potest hoc dedicere :
ideo preceptum est quod custodiatur; et
Willelmus films Huberti venit et finem
facit pro una marca. Cattalla Willelmi
filii Normanni iiij li., vnde Rogerus seruieiis
de Auclent Respondebit.

(189.) Rogerus filius Johannis de West-
aclent cecidit de quodam equo in viuario de
Ewenwode; primus inuentor Artur Grayfot:

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Infortunium.

exigatur.

xij d.

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venit et non malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium; precium equi v sol. : traditi fuerunt
Nicholao de Moles.

(190.) Willelmus Bercarius de West
aclent, luetta uxor ems, Henricus filius
Eorundem, et luetta Moppe conbusti fuerunt
in domo sua. Inuentor Willelmus filius
Margarete : veiiit et non malecreditur.
ludicium Infortunium.

(191.) Robertus et Adam filii Ade Pres-
biteri de Derlingtone, venerunt ad domum
Hugonis Nuneman et vulnerauerunt eum
ita quod infra xv dies obiit : exigatur in
comitatu per sectam Curie.

(192.) Quidam puer submersus fuit in
Grawenles iuxta Auclent sancte Elene.
Inuentor Eustachius Bercarius : venit et
non malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(193.) Bernardus filius Swayn de Stan-
hop occidit Willelmum filium Walteri de
Eadem et fugit. Hugo filius Stephaiii
f orestarii primo inuenit eum : venit et non
malecreditur. Cattalla eius xij d., vnde
vicecomes Respondebit. Et quia villata de
Stanhop non habuit Bernardum cor am Jus-
ticiariis, ideo in misericordia, et bernardus
exigatur per sectam Curie.

(194.) Werri de frosterle occidit Rober-
tum Orgrauer et fugit. Inuentor Eogerus
scortfrend: venit et non malecreditur.
Cattalla eius liberate fuerunt balliuis domini
Regis tempore Johannis filii Philippi; et
Werri exigatur et vtlagetur per sectam
curie; et quia villata de frosterleng non
habuit predictum Werri coram Justiciariis,
ideo in misericordia : et terra predicti Werri
data fuit Philippo de Wintone ad ....

(195.) Jacobus faber de Wlsingham sub-
mersit Emmam vxorem eius in Walkerop-

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misericordia.
'Xxv sol.

Infortunium.

misericordia.

misericordia.

exigatur.

misericordia.

bur ne et fugit; primus inuentor Walterus
Betermaulhe : venit et lion malecreditur.
Et quia villata de Wlsingham non habuit
predictum Jacobum, ideo in misericordia.
Cattalla predicti Jacobi xxv sol., vnde vice-
comes Respondebit.

(196.) Elgy de Eugemund cecidit de
quadam quercu ita quod obiit; primus
inuentor Willelmus filius eius : venit et non
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(197.) Eobertus de amundeuille le Bas-
tard occidit Eanulfum Cocum de Wttone in
domo sua, et fugit et vtlagatus est per
sectam vxoris predicti Eanulfi. Et quia
villata de Wttone non habuit predictum
Eobertum,, ideo in misericordia.

(198.) Hueloc de Hamsterle obiit de
morte subita in campo de Hamsterle ; prima
inuentrix syerifche vxor eius : venit et non
malecreditur. Judicium infortunium; [et
villata de Hamsterley] . Et Willelmus Dene,
lambertus garcio lamberti, et Eobertus filius
Agnete sepelierunt eum sine coronatore :
ideo in misericordia.

(1 99.) Huinf ridus Parcarius occidit Wal-
terum Caretarium et subtraxit se. Alicia
filia Beatricis de Branspathe Inuenit eum
primo : venit et non malecreditur ; et Hum-
fridus exigatur in comitatu per sectam
Curie. Cattalla predicti Humfridi tradita
fuerunt balliuis domini Regis tempore Hen-
rici de Neketone, scilicet xxxj sol. Et quia
villata de Branspathe non habuit predictum
Humfridum coram Justiciariis, ideo in
misericordia.

Et Eobertus filius Galfridi de Scirehotone
et Elyas filius Petri de Branspathe, qui
fuerunt in domo ubi predictus Walterus
occisus fuit, atachiati sunt ad esse coram
Justiciariis ; non veneruut : ideo in miseri-
cordia.

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(200.) Alicia Lotrix de Branspath, sicut

veiiit de Dunelmo, obiit per quandam tem-

pestatem; primus inuentor Thomas films

ems : venit et non malecreditur. Indicium

Infortunium. Infortunium.

(201.) Eicardus Gardinarius inuentus
f uit mortuus sub bosco de Brandone et obiit
subita morte ; prima inuentrix Amabilla
vxor eius : veiiit et non malecreditur. ludi-
cium Infortunium.

(202.) Eadulfus filius Eogeri Wlger sub-

mersus fuit in quodam fossato carbonum

maris ; primus inuentor Willelmus nlius

Thome de lintone : venit et non malecre-

Infortunium. ditur. ludicium Infortunium.

custodiatur,
misericordia.

custodiatur,
misericordia.

misericordia.

(203.) Alanus de Queshou, qui appellauit
Nicholauin de Heywrthe de plagis datis,
venit et retraxit se : ideo ipse custodiatur,
et plegii sui de prosecucione in misericordia.

(204.) Idem Alanus, qui appellauit Wal-
terum de Heywrthe et laurenciuin fratrem
eius de f orcia illius f acti, venit et retraxit
se : ideo ipse custodiatur, et plegii sui de
prosecucione in misericordia.

Et Nicholaus de Heywrthe non est inuen-
tus : ideo nichil de eo. Et Walterus de
Heywrthe et laureiicius frater eius, qui
appellati f uerunt, venerunt ; et quia alanus
de Queshou, ideo inquiratur ueritas per
patriam. Et conuinctum est per patriam
quod fuerunt culpabiles de forcia ilia et de
plagis quas predictus Nicholaus dedit pre-
dicto Alano. Et ideo consideratum est quod
predicti Walterus et laureiicius sint in
misericordia per plegia Berthrami de Hei-
wrthe et Johannis de Braffertone pro pre-
dicta traiisgressione. Et dent predicto
Alano iij sol. pro emendacione sua : plegii
de misericordia predicti Alaiii Thomas de
Queshou et Willelmus betoce et Eudo de
Queshou.

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(205.) Willelmus lilius Elye, qui appel-
lauit Ranulfuii] de Greiiewelle de pace, etc.,
et de plagis datis et de roberia; venit et
nichil dicit in appello suo per quod Duellum

misericordia. possit forniari : ideo ipse capiatur.

Idem Willelmus, qui appellauit Ricardum
de noua terra et Robertum filium Elye de
eadem de forcia illius facti, non potest sequi
uersus eos, quia cecidit de appello uersus
Ranulfuin de Greiiewelle, quern appellauit
de facto illo : ideo inquiratur ueritas de
eis; et conuinctum est per patriam quod
predicti Ricardus et Robertus fuerunt cum
predicto Willelmo, quando fecit factum

misericordia. illud ; et ideo in misericordia, et faciant

habere predicto Willelmo ad emendacionem
suam ij sol. ; plegii Willelmi filii Elie,
Johannes de Wudingfelde et Willelmus de
Greistanes : plegii dicti Roberti Ranulfi,
Hugo de Faules et Rogerus de Grenewelle :
plegii dicti Ricardi, Rogerus de Wlsingham
et Laurencius smaleye : plegii Roberti filii
Elie, Hugo de Faules et Willelmus pollard.

(206.) Malefactores veiierunt de nocte,
ad domum Rogeri de laddele et Robauerunt
eum : nescitur qui fuerunt.

(207.) Agneta filia Eudonis forestarii de
Branspethe appellauit Ricarduin de Kirke-
mimalesard ; et Ricardus captus fuit et
Inprisonatus apud Dunelmum, et euasit de
prisona, et postea captus fuit apud Ebora-
cum et suspensus, quia abiurauit regnum ;
et inquiratur.

(208.) Radulfus de Birn, qui appellauit
Johannem de Caldecotes de pace, etc., venit
et retraxit se : ideo ipse et plegii sui in
misericordia. Postea finem fecit pro se et
plegiis suis pro xx sol. per plegium Walteri
de Eggescliue ; et inquiratur per xij Jura-
tores de dampnis predicti Radulfi . Juratores
dicunt quod deter ioratus est et dampnum
habet ad valenciam xl sol. ; et satisfecit
predicto Radulf o pro xx sol .

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dimidia raarca.

ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY III.

(209.) Matilda filia Alani de Fery, que
appellauit Willelmum f abrum de rapo, venit
coram Justiciaries ; et Willelmus venit et
dat dimidiam marcam pro licencia despon-
sandi earn, et habet : plegii de dimidia
marca, Michael senescallus Prioris et Alarnis
Gris de fery.

custodiatur.

(210.) Jacobus de Harphile appellat Gal-
f ridum Stibeyn quod, ubi fuit in pace domini
Regis et Episcopi in vigilia sancti Cuhtberti
in Maldesmedive, venit ad eum et percussit
eum quodam cnipulo in brachio nequiter et
in feloniam; et quod hoc ei fecit offert
disracionare, prout Curia considerabit, sicut
homo maematus ; et Galfridus venit et per
licenciam Curie dat predicto Jacobo dimi-
diam marcam : et f aciat sanare plagam
suam, et Galfridus custodiatur.

Custodiatur.
misericordia.

(211.) Petrus Hanaker de Norhte Au-
clent, qui appellauit Robertuin Geiierem
Orme, Walterum fratrem eius, et Petrum
Punderum de Eldone ; venit et nichil dicit
uersus eos quare duellum possit formari.
Et Conuinctum est per xij Juratores quod
odio et athia appellauit eos ; et ideo Rober-
tus et alii inde quieti, et Petrus in miseri-
cordia et custodiatur.

misericordii.

(212.) Alanus Dulle, qui appellauit Hu-
gonem de Hampton et Robertum de Staue-
lege, mortuus est et essoniatus, et ideo alii
inde quieti; et predictus Robertus retatus
fuit de equis furatis, et ponit se super
patriam de bono et malo. Juratores dicunt
quod noii est culpabilis, set dicunt quod
Hugo de Hampton per odium et athiam
iiiposuit ei hoc crimen ; et ideo in boiia
misericordia, et Robertus quietus : plegii de
misericordia, Willelmus de Greistaiies, Wil-
lelmus filius Elye, Radulfus de Langhile, et
Walterus Scot.

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(213.) Eudo springalde de Hunewic, qui
appellauit Radulfum filium Bertram de pace
etc., mortuus est ; et ideo Radulfus inde
Quietus. quietus.

(214.) Beatrix filia Ade fin appellauit
Robertum pollard de rapo ; et conuinctum
est quod concordati sunt, et ideo Beatrix et
plegii sui de prosecucione et Robertus in
misericordia ; plegii predicti Beatricis, Wil-
loquendum pro lelmus fullo de Wulsingham : plegius Ro-

berti, Johannes Gilet. Beatrix capiatur.

(215.) Willelmus filius Radulfi Bertram,
qui appellauit simonem filium Eudonis
springalde de pace etc. ; dat vnam marcam
pro licencia retrahendi se : plegii, Radulfus
filius Bertram et Ricardus filius Bernardi.

(216.) De dominabus que sunt in dona-
cione domini Episcopi, dicunt quod Nicholaa
de Cokefeld debet esse in donacione domini
Episcopi et est maritanda, et terra sua
valet c sol.

(217.) Margareta vxor luce de Risse-
forthe est de donacione domini Episcopi et
maritanda : terra eius valet per annum
j marcam.

(218.) Galfridus filius Galfridi de parco
tenet serianciam de ij parccis domini Epis-
copi ; custoditur et valet per annum ij marcas.

(219.) Emma filia Ranulfi Bothe de stan-
hop debet tenere punderiam de stanhop in
feodo, et reddet per annum Ix gallinas et iiij
chapuns.

(220.) De purpresturis, dicunt quod due
vie que procedunt de foresta estupate sunt
per Rogerum per Rogerum seruientem de
Cockefeld ; et ideo preceptum est quod vie
predicte emendentur et sint sicut esse sole-
bant; et loquendum.

46 ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY in.

(221.) Una via in Heyopthele in foresta
domini Episcopi est estupata per hominem
loquendum die sagriste Dunelmensis, nescitnr quo Waranto:

mercurii. inde loquendum.

(222.) Johannes de Cumers leuauit quod-
dam fossatum inter Brusteldum et Tikeley ;
et ideo consideratum est quod fossatum
prosternatur, et sit si cut ante fuit : et
Johannes in misericordia.

Mem. 4 dors.
Adhuc de Derlingtone.

(223.) De Ecclesiis que esse debent de
donacione domini Episcopi, dicunt quod
Ecclesia de Derlingtone est de donacione
domini Episcopi. Petrus Decanus de Der-
lingtone, et Willelmus persona de Derling-
tone, et Willelmus de Bromh', et quidam
clericus Regis tenent earn, et valet iiijxx
marcas.

(224.) Ecclesia de Haluton debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet
c rn areas ; et Archidiaconus Dunelmensis
et quidam Eoinanus earn tenent.

(225.) Ecclesia de Auclent debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet cc
marcas. Capella de Bedeburne debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet c sol.
Magister Walterus aurifaber earn tenet.

(226.) Ecclesia de Wlsingham debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet
xl marcas. Willelmus de Marisco earn
tenet.

(227.) Ecclesia de stanhop debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet
1 marcas, et Nicholaus de Neuille earn tenet.

ASSIZE KOLL 223, 27 HENRY III. 47

(228.) Ecclesia de stayndrop debet esse
de donacione domini Episcopi et valet
xl marcas.

(229.) Agneta filia Thome filii Helewis
inuenit denarios quos Rogerus Southard de
Stanhop amisit, set Agneta non est inuenta.

(230.) Johannes surreys quondam homo
Johannis de Witewrth, et Hutting filius
Ricardi Molendinarii de Wodum burgau-
erunt Capellam de Grangia de Rikenhale,
et furati fuerunt tres quarterios auene et
duxerunt apud Wodum ad domum predict!
vtting, et ibi inuenti fuerunt ; et Johannes
le Irays fugit, et dictus vtting atachiatus
fuit pro eodem latrocinio, et loquela ista
finita fuit tempore Regis, et vtting est in
terra sancta.

(231.) Aylwinus de Branspath subtraxit
se pro j oue quern furauit de ouibus Alani
de Brunghil : sedeat ad pacem si voluerit,
et inueniat plegios de fidelitate.

(232.) Walterus Bradeye furatus fuit
unum forcerum Walteri de Hayeforht cum
Jocalibus et denariis, et pro hoc et alio
latrocinio se subtraxit. Indicium, exigatur
per sectam Curie. Cattalla predicti Walteri
viij sol. vj d. viij sol. vj d., vnde vicecomes Respondebit.

(233.) Matilda filia lecie de Wlsingham
burgatrix est domorum et Grangiarum, et
ideo se subtraxit : sedeat ad pacein si
uoluerit, et inueniat plegios de fidelitate.

(234.) Petrus Ode de Media merigtone
inditatus est de ouibus, aucis, gallinis et
blado furatis; venit coram Justiciariis et
ponit se super iiijor villatas et xij Jura-
tores de bono et malo, qui dicunt quod

suspendatur Culpabilis est. ludicium, suspendatur.

xxv sol. x d. Cattalla predicti Petri xxv sol. x d., unde

vicecomes Respondebit,

48 ASSIZE EOLL 223, 27 HENKY in.

(235.) Adam cum barba fugit et vtlaga-
tus fnit in Weredale. Cattalla predict!
xiij sol. ij d. Ade xiij sol. ij d., vnde Martinus forestarius

Kespondebit. Postea testatum est quod
predictus Adam suspensus fuit in libertate
Archiepiscopi Eboracensis.

(236.) De defaltis, dicunt quod Nicho-
laus Cocus de Derlingtone, Willelmus de
leuingthorp in Halutoiie, Baldewinus de
Queshou, Benedictus de Haluton, Bene-
dictus de Blackewelle, Thomas Aublin,
Gilbertus de Turribus, Nicholaus de faren-
done, et Alexander fullo de Bereforde non
misericordia. venerunt primo die : ideo in misericordia.

loquendum.

(237.) Hugo de Tindale captus fuit pro
latrocinio et imprisonatus fuit apud Auclent
[in custodia Hugonis le Messer], et euasit
de prisona et fugit ; et Hugo finem fecit
pro ilia euasione cum balliuis domini Regis
pro xxx sol. tempore Nicholai de Moles : et
ideo loquendum de euasione, et predictus
Hugo de Tindale exigatur per sectam
curie.

loquendum.

loquendum.

(238.) Rogerus Prikemodi captus fuit
in villata de Wlsingham et ibidem positus
in prisonatu : postea euasit ad ecclesiam de
Wlsingham, et abiurauit regnum coram
si m one seruiente ; et villata fuit amerciata
pro ilia euasione, scilicet pro iij marcis,
tempore Henrici de Neketone ; et ideo
loquendum.

(239.) Omnes molendinarii iuxfca Wer
et teisam capiunt salmonices; et ideo
loquendum.

(240.) Gilbertus Hansard pater Johannis
Hansard fecit unum parcum [iuxta Euen-
ewde] tempore Ricardi de Marisco, nescitur
quo Waranto. Ideo sumonitus predictus

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Johannes quo Waranto, etc. Johannes
Hansard largiauit alium parcum tempore
Ricardi secundi Episcopi, et Johannes
summonitus quo Waranto, etc. ; et Juratores
dicunt quod est ad nocumentum Episcopi
et horninum suorum in Auclent, quia, post-
quani blada. asportauerunt, solebant ibidem
conmunicare.

(241 .) Willelmus Piscator de Sokeburne,
qui appellauit Hugonem de la Mare pro
quodam salmonice quern de eo robauit ;
nichil dixit quare formaretur duellum, et
ideo corisideratum est quod Willelmus
Piscator pro falso apello sit in misericordia
et custodiatur, et Hugo inde sine die, et
inquiratur per xij Juratores si Roberia f acta
fuit per dictum Hugonem. luratores dicunt
quod predictus Hugo cepit salmonicem
predictum contra voluntatem predicti Wil-
lelmi ; et Hugo sit in misericordia pro
misericordia. ilia capcione, et satisfaciat predicto.

Willelmo de salmonice, scilicet de vj d. :
plegius predicti Hugonis de misericordia
sua, Walterus de Eggescliue. Plegius de
misericordia predicti Willelmi, Walterus
de Eggescliue.

(242.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Radulfi. Artur et eum robauerunt : nescitur
qui fuerunt.

(243.) Robertus filius Meldredi appellnt
Robertum Trayne quod ipse in felonia
stetit contra eum in curia Dunelmensi,
consulendo contra eum ad eius exhered-
acionem cuiusdam Bosci. Et ideo in felonia,
quod idem Robertus feofatus est de tene-
mento ipsius Roberti in eodem bosco, et
tenetur ei in fidelitate, quam nequiter
offendit; et hoc offert probare per corpus
Willelmi de Brancebire, qui presens est et
hoc profert, et si de eo humaniter, etc., per
alium, etc. Et Robertus non venit, quia
est in partibus transmarinis, et inuenit

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plegios ad esse coram Justiciariis ad defen-
dendum hoc quod predictus Robertus eidem

misericordia. inponit : ideo plegii sui in misericordia,

scilicet Johannes de Rungetone et Johannes

loquendum. de Hedlum ; et loquendum de predicto

Roberto traine. Pc>stea venit Willelmus
de Brakenbire et retraxit se : ideo ipse
custodiatur, et plegii sui in misericordia.

(244.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Serithe longe de Morhil et earn robauerunt :
nescitur qui fuerunt ; et Sierithe non venit
[quia mortua est] : et quia plegii sui non
essoniauerunt earn, ideo in misericordia,
Scilicet Thomas truan et Ranulfus Prudfot.

(245.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Edolfe de lunesake et earn robauerunt.
Postea suspensi fuerunt.

(246.) Duo filii Ade presbiteri de Der-
lingtone robauerunt Robertum filium Wil-
lelmi de Hampsterle in mora de Morhil :
postea suspensi fuerunt.

(247.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum

Rogeri tilii Ade et eum ligauerunt et

robauerunt : nescitur qui fuerunt. Et quia

xij Juratores non presentauerunt loquelam

misericordia. istani Justiciariis,, ideo in misericordia.

(248.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Ade de uiuario et eum robauerunt : nescitur
qui fuerunt ; et Adam mortuus est,, et quia
plegii sui non essoniauerunt eum, ideo in
misericordia, Willelmus le fullo et Adam
Curant ; et quia villata de Wttone non
presentauerunt istam loquelam coram Jus-
misericordia. ticiariis, ideo in misericordia.

(249.) Hugo filius Ricardi de Huttelege

exigatur. subtraxit se pro latrociiiio ouium : exigatur

in comitatu per sectam Curie. Cattalla pre-

dicti Hugonis v sol., et liberati fuerunt tem-

pore Nicbolai de Moles balliuis domiui Regis.

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(250.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Gilbert! de Wakefelde et eum ligauerunt et
robauerunt : nescitur qui fuerunt ; et Gil-
bertus mortuus est, et quia non assoniatur,
ideo plegii sui in misericordia, scilicet
Walterus Grim et Eicardus seruiens de
Wakefelde.

(251.) Thomas Truter inditatus per sus-
picionem de morte Walteri hominis Henri ci
Persone de stanbop ; venit et poiiit se super
patriam de bono efc malo, qui dicunt quod
non malecredunt eum de morte predicti
Quietus. Walteri, nee de ullo latrocinio. Ideo Quietus.

(252.) Petrus de Gawaye mortuus fuit
subito per quandam infirmitatem quam
habuit ; inuentrix Juliana vxor ems, et non
malecreditur. Judicium Infortunium.

(253.) Petrus quidam probate r inditauit
Huddone molendinarium et Robert um le
Mercer; veniunt et non malecreditur, et
dominus Robertas films Maldredi manucepit
eos quod fideliter se habebunt.

(254.) Villata de stainton manucepit,
quod Walterus .... inditatus fuit per
quendam probatorem Colmun, quod fideliter
se habebit.

Veredictum de Cestre per xij Juratores.

(255.) Johannes filius Radulfi de Cannis
submersus fuit in mari de vno batello ;
primus iiiuentor Michael frater eius : venit
et non malecreditur ; et predictus Johannes,
quando inuentus fuit, circum uolutus erat
in velo batelli. Judicium Infortunium.
Robertus de Nederton Respondebit de velo.

(256.) Ricardus filius Johannis Latethe-
waterga de Cornishou cecidit de quodam
equo in aqua de Brun et non inuentus :

E 2

Infortunium.
v sol. deodandi.

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nullus inde malecreditur. Judicium Infor-
tunium : precium equi v sol., vnde vicecomes
Respondebit.

misericordia.

(257.) Rogerus filius Ade de Hesse sub-
mersus fuit iuxta molendinum de Ham stele
in aqua de Brun ; non inuentus : nullus
inde malecreditur. Elyas Molendinarius,
qui fuit in Molendino, atachiatur ; mortuus
est, et quia plegii sui non essoniauerunt
eum, ideo in misericordia, scilicet Alanus
de Wyndegate inanens in langecestre, et
Stephanus de stubbes.

Infortunium.

(258.) Matilda vxor Walteri de Tindale
combusta fuit in domo sua igne proprio ;
primus Inuentor Thomas filius eius : venit
et non malecreditur. Judicium Infortu-

nium.

Infortunium.

(259.) Cristiana filia Radulfi Carpentarii,
etatis duorum annorum, submersa fuit in
quodam fossato in Curia predicti Eadulfi.
Inuentrix Gunnoc mater eius : venit et non
male creditur. Judicium Infortunium.

Infortuuium.

(260.) Margareta de Langelege obiit in
lecto suo morte subita in domo Rogeri filii
Thome de la Vacherie ; primus inueiitor
idem Rogerus : venit et non malecreditur.
Judicium Infortunium.

Infortunium
misericordia.

(261.) Matilda Gurnepinge de Dunelmo
submersa fuit in Riuulo de franteley.
Inuentrix Alicia mater eius ; venit : ideo
ipsa et plegii sui in misericordia, scilicet
Gilbert us fullo et Humfridus Gurnepein ;
nullus male creditur de rnorte sua. Judi-
cium Infortunium^ et Petrus de Byam pro
transgressione in misericordia bona.

(262.) Galfridus de Pr . . . . tor; de
Ouingham submersus fuit in aqua de Tine

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misericordia.
Infortunium.

Infortuiiium.

iuxta Eieton ; primus inuentor Uctredus
faber de Ouingham ; non venit : ideo ipse
et plegii sui in misericordia, scilicet Eadulf us
de Berleye et Elias de Curweruic ; nullus
malecreditur. ludicium infortunium.

(263.) .... us Carpentarius de Berleye
obiit subita morte in bosco de Wulatone;
primus inuentor Eicardus .... ludicium
infortunium.

(264.) Petrus films Elye de quod

infra Quindenain obiit. Nullus inde male
creditur. ludicium infortunium.

Mem. 5.
Veredictum de Sunderland.

(265.) De nouis placitis : dicunt quod
Hatholf de Sunderland submersus fuit in
portu maris apud Weremue : prima inuentrix
Matilda vxor eius, et Walterus filius Henrici
de Sunderland, Alexander filius Willelmi de
Eadem, et Walterus filius Eogeri May.
[Walterus filius Eogeri] non venit quia
mortuus est ; et quia plegii sui non essouia-

misericordia. uerunt eum de morte, ideo in misericordia,

scilicet Eogerus May et Elias filius Eadulti ;
et Alexander non venit : ideo ipse et plegii

misericordia. sui in misericordia, scilicet Willelmus filius

Willelmi de Sunderland et Henricus filius
Galfridi de eadem. Et quia villata de
Sunderland non presentauit qui f uerunt
in batello quando submersus fuit, ideo in
misericordia ; et quia villate de Sunderland,
Eeshop et Tunstal, qui presentauerunt
loquelam istam ad coinitatum, 11011 fuerunt

misericordia. coram Justiciariis, ideo in misericordia:

precium veli illius batelli xij d., unde Gal-
fridus seruiens Eespondebit.

(266.) Quidam homo et quedam femina
submersi fuerunt in Wer apud Wermue ;

54 ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY in.

nullus hide Malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium. Et quia villata de Sunderlaiid
non presentauit nomina eorum qui submersi
misericordia. fuerunt, ideo in misericordia.

(267.) DeEcclesiis: dicunt quod Ecclesia
de Wermue est de donacione doinini Epis-
copi, et valet per annum C. libras.

Veredictum de Auclent.

(268.) De pannis venditis contra assisam:
dicunt quod Willelmus Walker et Johannes
faber vendiderunt pannos contra assisam :
misericordia. ideo iii misericordia; et quia Burgus de

Auclent presentauit plures falsas loquelas
que non fuerunt presentande, ideo in miseri-
cordia.

Veredictum Burgi Dunelmi per xij Juratores.

(269.) Qui dam homo submersus fuit
in aqua iuxta Kingesgate ; primus Inueiitor
Willelmus Scot : non venit nee inuenit
plegios ; nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium

Infortunium. Inf ortunium ; et quia burgus non presen-

tauit loquelam istam ad Comitatum, ideo

misericordia. in misericordia,

(270.) Thomas Plumbarius cecidit in
f ermario Dunelmi et obiit ; primus inuentor
Ranulfus Quatremare : mortuus est et

Infortunium. essoniatus. Et Radulfus Neb,, qui fuit

ibidem, inuenit plegios ad esse coram Jus-
ticiariis, et non venit : ideo ipse et plegii

misericordia. sui in misericordia, scilicet Astinus de ballo

et Hugo Pistor de Duiielmo ; et quia Burgus
non presentauit quod Radulfus nebe fuit
ubi Thomas Plumbarius cecidit,, ideo in

misericordia. misericordia. Nullus malecreditur de morte

sua. ludicium Infortunium.

(271.) E-ogerus Braciator cecidit iioc-
tanter ita quod obiit ; et quia Burgus

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nesciuit qui fuit primus inuentor, ideo in
misericordia.

(272.) Quedam puella Agneta opressa
fuit in quadam fouea; primus inuentor
Hugo Wlbyn : venit et non malecreditur.
Indicium Infortunium.

(273.) Quidam extraneus venit ad domum
Alani Cissoris, et quedam vigilia fuit in
domo predicti Alani: ludens cum aliis
cecidit per ebritatem de quadam domo ita
quod obiit; primus inuentor lece de
Dunellmo : venit et non malecreditur, nee
Infortunium. alii qui fuerunt in domo. Indicium Infor-

tunium. Gladius et arcus predicti extranei
traditi fuerunt ad castrum Dunelmi.

(274.) Quedam puella, matilda nomine,
submersa fuit in stangno quondam Henrici
Arch' ; prima inuentrix Alicia mater eius :
Infortunium. nullus inde malecreditur. Indicium Infor-

tunium.

(275.) Matilda de langelege obiit morte

subita in domo Hugonis de Eboraco : nullus

lufortunium. inde malecreditur. Indicium Infortunium.

(276.) Hugo filius Hugonis saltauit vltra
nouum pontem per tiinorem Radulfi filii
Matilde sequentis, ita quod infra viij dies
obiit. Radulfus fugit ad Ecclesiam sancti
Osewaldi et abiurauit regnum. Et quia
Burgus de Dunelmo non cepit predictum
Radulfum quaiido fugit ad Ecclesiam, ideo
in misericordia.

(277.) De Escaetis: dicunt quod quedam
terra est in Dunelmo quam Radulfus vine-
tarius tenet sine Waraiito; ideo loquendum.

(278.) De purpresturis factis : dicunt
quod Prior Dunelmeiisis leuauit quoddam
fossatum ad nocumeiituni pasture Dunelmi;
loquendum. et ideo loquendum cum Episcopo.

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(279.) De mensuris factis : et luratores
loqueudum. dicunt quod bene semantur; ideo loquen-

dum.

(280.) De latitudine pannorum : dicunt
quod non seruantur ; ideo loquendum.

(281.) De vims venditis contra assisam :

Radulfus vinetarius, Galfridus de Jarum,

Eadulf us flandrispehe Coyman, et Kicardus

de Bruton uendiderunt contra assisam ; ideo

misericordia* in misericordia.

(282.) De cattallis captis ad Castrum
contra voluntatem eorum quorum cattalla
fuerunt : dicunt quod Eobertus de Tesemue
et Euerardus, seruientes de Castro, ceperunt
blada contra voluntatem eorum quorum
loquendum. blada fuerunt, et ideo loquendum : plegii

dicti Eoberti.

(283.) Adam de Merley fecit unum
molendinum fulereticum apud Tipsete con-
tra libertatem et ad nocumentum domini
Episcopi et Burgensium Dunelmi. Robertu s
loquendum. frater eius summonitus quo Waranto, etc.

(284.) Bur genses Dunelmi aduocant quod
bene possunt namiare armigeros militum de
patria per runcinas suos pro debito vel pro
loquendum. plegio ; et ideo loquendum.

(285.) Willelmus films Gileami homo
Eoberti filii Maldredi queritur quod ubi
emit bidentes in baronia domini sui extra
libertates burgi Dunelmi, et eas de una
villa ad aliam duxit, in quibus villis pre-
dictus Willelmus terrain habuit, veneruiit
balliui Dunelmenses et ceperunt bidentes
et eos usque Dunelmum fugaiido, crura
frangentes ad dampnum predicti Willelmi
unius marce, et ibi bidentes inparcauerunt
et eos detinuerunt contra vadium et plegium
quousque predictus Willelmus finem fecit
pro xj solidis ; postea ceperunt pro predictis

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xj solidis runcinum Walter! de Auford,
seruientis domini Robert! filii Maldr', qui
emit cibum domini sui, et retinuerunt
predictum runcinum ita quod modo escor-
iatus est ; unde predictus Walterus queritur
quod dampnificatus est ad valenciam xv
sol.

Burgenses venerunt, et bene aduocant
quod ceperunt bidentos predictos et xj
solidos ; set dicunt quod predictus Willel-
mus de voluntate sua finem fecit pro
predictis xj solidis : et bene concedunt
quod ceperunt runcinum predicti Walteri,
et dicunt quod bene possunt ramiare ubique
infra tinam et teysam eos qui emunt vel
vendunt sine licencia Burgensium Dunelmi ;
et dicunt quod bene possunt capere runcinos
seruientuni militum patrie pro debito et
plegio. Item dicunt quod nullus potest
emere vel vendere infra tinam et teysam
nisi habeat licenciam de eis, nisi sit in
Comitatu Sadberge.

(286.) Henricus Molendinarius queritur
de eisdem quod, ubi emit allecem in villa
Dunelmi, venit ad eos et optulit eis telonium,
etillitantummodo miser untproptercarectam
suam, que fuit extra villam cum allece, et
earn ceperunt quousque et retinuerunt finem
fecit pro allece pro iiij01' solidis ; et illi bene
concedunt quod dedit eis predictos iiij
solidos, quia dicunt quod lioc bene facere
possunt.

(287.) Henricus faber queritur quod,
quia uxor eius vendidit j oblatam allecis,
arestauerunt allecem predicti Henrici
quousque finem fecit pro iiijor solidis.

(288.) Conuictum est per fideles homines
quod quidam meiiestrallus de familia Regis
Scotici venit apud Dunelmum et hospitatus
fuit ultra pontem in Eluete, et optulit
balliuis Dunelmi thelonium ; et illi nolue-

58 ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HE^KY in.

runt, set ceperunt equos et pannos predict!
Menestralli et ea retirmerunt quousque finem
fecit pro v solidis.

(289.) Homo Gilberti de Dunfrantuille
queritur de eisdem burgensibus quod, sicut
venit in Dunelmum cum quodam Jumento
quod dominus suus dedit domino Roberto
filio Meldredi ad ponendum in parco suo,
ceperunt predictum Jumentum et arestaue-
runt, per duos dies contra vadium et plegium
illud iumentum detinentes.

(290.) Omnes milites patrie queruntur
quod homines burgensium Dunelmi noc-
tanter veniunt ad domos hominum patrie
cum armis, et ibi scrutantur totam domum
propter lanam tinctam ; et inde dicunt quod
roberia sepe facta est in patria, et bene
potest euenire quod isti faciunt roberiam.

(291.) Robertus films Meldredi queritur
de eisdem quod venerunt apud Braiispathe
noctanter, et scrutabantur domos hominum
suorum pro lana tincta ; et ibi inuenerunt
plegios standi recto in curia sua, et postea
non venerunt.

(292.) Bertram de Heywothe venit in
Ouriam domini Episcopi, dicens quod
Cecilia mater eius xij annis iam elapsis
tradidit Manerium suuui de Heywrothe
tenendum toto tempore vite sue pro viij
marcis annuatim percipiendis in Maiierio
de Craucrumbe nomine firme predicte, et
tune fecit eidem quandam scripturam quam
profert, que dicit quod dicta Cecilia con-
cessit, affidauit, et iurauit dicto Bertramo
filio et heredi quod de tota hereditate sua
non vendet nee dabit nee inuadiabit nee
aliquo alienabit per quod idem Bertram us
uel heredes sui shit perdentes. Et dicit
idem Bertramus quod postmodum, occasione
cuiusdam conteiitionis quam ei mouere
voluit, venit eadem Cecilia et concessit ei

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dictum Manerium de Heywothe in feodo et

hereditate per quandam scripturam quam

profert, que talis est. (f Omnibus hanc

cartam visuris uel audituris, Bertramus de

Heyworthe salute in. Sciatis me dedisse,

concessisse, et hac presenti carta mea

[conjfirmasse Domine Cecilie matri mee

du [as] partes domui mee In villa de Krauk-

rake, et duas partes molendini mei in eadem

villa, et duas partes Bracini eiusdem ville,

et redditum iiij01' marcarum quern ....

assignaui In eadem villa cum Cottario,

Habenda et tenenda dicte Cecilie in tota

vita sua tarn in dominio quam molendino

Bracino et in predicto redditu [cum]

Cottario., cum omnibus pertinenciis pre-

dictis dominio et molendino, Eedditu et

Bracino pertinentibus nomine dotis sine

ullo retenemento. Et pro ilia donacione,

concessione et confirmatione predicta Cecilia

dedit, concessit in propria viduitate sua, et

ligitima potestate quietum clamauil mihi

veluti h . . . . e et heredbus meis de se

manerium de Hewrothe cum molendino et

omnibus pertinenciis et aisiamentis tarn in

dominicis quam in seruiciis, Et ad Incre-

meiituin j. Marcam annuatim de terra

quam Willelmus tilius Patricii tenet in

Kraukruke sine ullo retenemento, Faciendo

seruicia que predictum Manerium de

Hewroth tangunt in homagiis et omnibus

aliis seruiciis, Ita quod nee dicta Cecilia

aliquod Jus uel clamium in predicto

Manerio de Hewrothe uel molendino de-

cetero possit exigere. Predicta Cecilia

affidauit et iurauit, et carta sua confirmauit

quod de predicta villa de Kraukruke non

vendet nee dabit nee inuadiabit nee aliquo

iriodo alienabit aliquid, nee domino nee

Balliuo nee viro religionis nee alicui alii

dimittet, per1 quam ego Bertramus uel

heredes mei possumus exereditari. Ego

uero Bertramus et heredes mei totam pre-

dictam terram, Molendinum, Bracinum et

redditum iiij01' Marcarum cum omnibus per-

60 ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENKY in.

tinenciis contra omnes homines predicte
Cecilie in tota vita sua warantizabimus et
defendamus. Post decessum uero dicte
Cecilie dictam domum et molendimim et
Bracinum et redditus et capella de
Krak[ruke] cum pertinenciis mihi here-
dibus meis remeabunt. Ad hanc autem
conuencionem fideliter tenendam et obser-
uandani scripta ista in modum Cyrographi
sunt .... Et in maiori securitate predicti
Bertrarnus et Cecilia sigilla sua hiis scriptis
diuersimode apposuer[unt]. Hiis testibus,
Domino Roberto capellano de Neusum,
Domino Galfrido filio Galfridi, et aliis in
carta predicta contentis, Ex quibus Gal-
fridus films Galfridi, Nigellus de Bourtun,
Walterus de Widr[ingtone], Gilbertus de
Turs, Willelmus de Essewelle, Willelmus
de Rongetone, Johannes de linze presentes
sunt et veniunt .... tenc' stantez cum
dicto Bertramo tamquam ex parte sua. Et
ipse Bertramus bene recognoscit quod
Suspicantur cartam nullam aliam scripturam habet, nee aliud
quidam testtez. .... qUO(j pOSsit dictam terram clamare in

feodo.

Et Sciandum quod Sigillum Nigelli de
Rongeton appensum est dicte scripture, et
non proprium sigillum dicte Cecilie [ut ipse
Bertramus bene recognoscit] ; et bene con-
cedit quod dicta Cecilia postea fecit
homagium suum domino Episcopo qui nunc
est, set Postmodum reclamauerunt ....
dicti Bertrami, ut dicunt. Et dicunt eciam
quod postmodum optulit homagium suum
domino Episcopo de terra ilia [et de] aliis
terris suis; set dominus Episcopus noluit
tune recipere. Et petit idem Bertramus
quod dicta Cecilia audiatur super aliqua
Alienacione de predicto Manerio."

Memb. 5 dors.

Veredictum Burgi de Eluete.
(293.) De pannis venditis contra assisani :

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61

dicunt quod assisa non seruatur : ideo omnes
factores et venditores pannorum eiusdem
Burgi in misericordia.

Yeredictum vici sancti Egidii.

(294.) Homines vici sancti Egidii dant
Ix solidos per sic quod non occasionentur.

(295.) De pannis venditis : dicunt quod
assisa non seruatur sicut prouisum fuit :
misericordia. ^eo jn misericordia.

De purpresturis factis : dicunt quod
Rogerus de beuerlaco et Hugo le franceys
fecerunt quandam purpresturam super viam
regiam : ideo loquendum.

(296.) Quidam extraneus, nomine Gal-
fridus de sancto Andrea, fugit ad Ecclesiam
sancti Egidii pro suspicione latrocinii et
abiurauit Regnum.

(297.) Ricardus de San eta Margareta et
Ricardus le Teler malecreduntur de re-
ceptacione Ade, Garcionis Ricardi Capellani
de sancta Maria Magdalena, qui furabatur
denarios et pannos ad valenciam v marcarum
de dicto Ricardo : non venerunt ; ideo ipse

misericordia. et plegii eorum in misericordia, scilicet

Robertas Kanze et Elias prepositus, Ra-
dulfus le Tanur, Radulfus ledere, Thomas
fullo, Walterus ad fontem, Hugo Nobilis,
Radulfus forestarius, et Mcholaus sutor;
et quia xij Juratores non presentauerunt

misericordia. hoc, ideo in misericordia.

Veredictum veteris Burgi Dunelmi.

(298.) De Pannis venditis contra assisam :
dicunt quod assisa non seruatur : ideo omnes
factores et venditores pannorum in miseri-
cordia.

62

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Infortunium.
xij d. deo dandi.

Memb. 6.
Adhuc de Cestre.

(299.) Eogerus films Wakelin submersus
fuit in Wer de quodam batello : primus in-
uentor Walkel pater eius ; mortuus est et
essoniatus. ludicium Infortunium : precium
batelli xij d. unde vicecomes Eespondebit.

(300.) Haldan Druri de Wuustowe,

Willelmus Mantel de nouo castro, et plures

alii submersi fuerurit in mari iuxta

Wuustowe : primi inuentores Cristiana

mater dicti Willelmi Mantel, et Eadulfus

filius Radulfi de Witeburne. Cristiana non

venit nee fuit atachiata, et Eadulfus venit

Infortunium. et non malecreditur. ludicium infortunium :

iij sol. vj d. deo dandi. precium batelli iij sol. vj d. , vnde Eadulfus

seruiens Eespondebit.

(301.) Johannes prepositus de Heltone
cecidit de quodam lumento et obiit : prima
inuentrix sibilla neptis eius ; venit et non
malecreditur nee aliquis alius. ludicium
Infortunium : precium lumenti x sol. tern-
pore N. de Molis, vnde Johannes Gilet
Eespondebit.

Infortunium.
x sol.

Infortunium.
vjd.

(302.) Garciones domini Johannis de
Eumelys ceciderunt de quodam cobello in
Wer et submersi iuxta Kokene, que est de
Warda de Esigtone : iiullus inde male-
creditur. ludicium Infortunium : precium
Cobelli vj d. ; traditi fuerunt Johanni Gilet
tempore Nicholai de Moles.

(303,) Willelmus de Blatheuin sub-
mersus fuit in aqua de Tine, et inuentus
fuit per dunam uxorem eius. Judicium
Infortunium. Duna affidauit esse coram
Justiciariis,, quia pauper fuit; etideo nichil.

(304.) Elyas fullo de Cestre putans per-
cutere quendam canem, et percussit filium

misericordia.

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63

suum in capite ita quod in crastino obiit:
nullus alius inde malecreditur. Et quia
villate de Plausurthe, Peltou, et Piketre
non presentauerunt loquelam istam ad comi-
tatum, sicut villata de Cestre fecit, ideo in
misericordia; et loquendum cum Episcopo
de pr edict o Ely a.

ij sol.

(305.) Agneta filia Mgelli de Boldone,
etate iiij annorum, cecidit in quendam
plumbum per unum vitulum, et escaldata
fuit ita quod inde obiit : nullus inde male-
creditur. Judicium Infortunium : precium
vituli et plumbi ij sol., unde vicecomes
Respondebit.

Infortunium.

(306.) Eicardus films Sieriht de Linz
obiit de morte subitain via de Linz : primus
inuentor Henricus filius eius ; venit et non
malecreditur. ludicium Infortunium.

(307.) Prater Benedictus de loco fratris
Goifridi submersus fuit in Tina de quodani
cobello per quandam nauem transeuntem
uersus mare : primus inuentor Johannes
Stute de Heborm ; venit et non male-

Infortunium. creditur. Judicium Infortunium, Et quia

villata de Gattsheuid non presentauit inuen-
torem coram Justiciariis, ideo in miser i-

misericordia. cordia. Postea testatum fuit per vice-

comitem quod presentauerant inuentorem,
et ideo quietantur de misericordia.

(308.) Quedam femina ignota inuenta
fuit submersa in riuulo iuxta Cestre :
primus inuentor Patricius Walker de Cestre;
venit et non malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
tunium.

Infortunium.

(309.) Walterus filius Willelroi de Muse-
welle submersus fuit in mari : primus in-
uentor Willelmus pater eius ; venit et non
malecreditur. Judicium Infortunium.

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(310.) Hugo Molendinarius de Cestre
cecidit de quadam quercu in bosco de
Tribelege ita quod obiit: primus Inuentor
Eicardus films Willelmi Euffeit ; mortuus
est et essoniatus, et ideo nichil de plegiis :
nullus inde malecreditur. ludicium Infor-
Infortunium. tunium.

(311.) Eadulfus filius Willelmi Trail de
Cestre inuentus fuit mortuus in bosco de
Cestre : primus inuentor Eadulfus filius
Maldredi; venit et non malecreditur.
Infortunium. ludicium Infortunium xij Juratores in

misericordia quia presentauerunt falsum
inuentorem : ideo in misericordia.

(312.) Johannes Molendinarius de Wes-
sigtone vulnerauit Johannem de Hewrthe
in capite quadam hachia et fugit, et
Johannes de Hewrthe inde obiit; et pre-
dictus Johannes de Wesintone ultlagatus
fuit in Comitatu per sectam [Agnete]
uxoris predicti Johannis, et uttesium non

loquendum. fuit leuatum : ideo loquendum super Wesig-

tone. Et quia villata de Wesigtone non
habnit predictum Johannem malefactorem

misericordia. coram Justiciaries, ideo in misericordia.

(313.) luo de Bincestre suspendit se

ipsum in quadam Camera apud finchale :

primus inuentor Thomas Janitor ; mortuus

est, et quia plegii sui non essoniauerunt

eum, ideo in misericordia, scilicet Walterus

Tusard et Jordanus de Seton : nullus male-

Infortunium. creditur de facto illo. ludicium Infor-

xxxv s. vj d. tunium. Cattalla predicti luonis xxxv sol.

vj d. Inquirendum de Cattallis per E.J de

Cliuedone et Johannem Pollard.

(314.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Matilde de Mora et earn ligauerunt, et her
.... qui fuit in domo ilia ita uerberauerunt
quod inde obiit : nescitur qui fuerunt. Et
[quia] villate de Morehuse maior, Ardene,

misericordia.

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65

Piketre, et Morehuse minor non pre-
sent a uerunt loquelam istam in Comitatu,
ideo in misericordia.

misericordia.

(315.) Duo ignoti inuenti fuerunt vulner-
auerunt iuxta viuarium in bosco extra
Dunelmuin, et cariati apud Dunelmum :
non potuerunt loqui ; vixerunt per duos
dies : primus inueiitor Willelmus Sele :
nescitur qui fuerunt; et quia villate de
swinesgate, Flaws wr the, Neutoiie, et Bikes-
wrtlie non leuauerunt Hutesiurn., ideo in
misericordia.

misericordia.

(316.) Alexander mercator de lundon
inuentus fuit occisus in bosco extra Dunel-
mum, nescitur per quern : primus inuentor
Willelmus films Mathei de Cestre ; et quia
villate de Siwegate, Plawswrht et bikele-
wrthe non leuauerunt Hutesium, ideo in
misericordia.

misericordia.

(317.) Ramilfus Bercarius de Bradelege
uulnerauit Johannem Trail de Croxb in
capite quadam hachia in campis de Croxb,
et statiin fugit : dictus Johannes vixit per
sex septimanas et mortuus est de eadem
plaga. Et quia villata de Croxb non
habuerunt predictum Ranulfum, ideo in
misericordia.

(318.) Thomas Todde de Bedlingtone
vulnerauit scarf de eadem in capite de
quodam pieoys ita quod obiit, et Thomas
fugit ; et predictus Thomas exigitur in
comitatu per sectam curie. Et quia villata
de Bedlingtone non habuit predictum
Thomam, ideo in misericordia.

(319.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domuin Elye le passur de Bidicford et
eum ligaueruiit et robauerunt : nescitur
qui fuerunt.

66

misericordia.
misericordia.

ASSIZE KOLL 225, 27 HENRY III.

(320.) Eicardus de Eligtone, homo Ade
de Perigtone, ligatus fuit et robatus per
malefactores extra villam de Gatisheuid:
nescitur qui fuerunt.

(321.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum syeriz badde de Bermestone :
nescitur qui fuerunt ; et earn robaueruiit ;
et quia villate de Bermestone, Wessintone,
Haltone, et Newetone non presentauerunt
istam loquelana in Comitatu, ideo in miseri-
cordia.

(322.) Robertus films Alewin de slike-
burne ligatus fuit et robatus : nescitur qui
fuerunt qui eum robauerunt.

(323.) Radulfus Kimbhot, Johannes Bat,
Robertus de Morile, venerunt ad domum
Thome delhou de langecestre et eum ligaue-
runt et eum robauerunt. Radulfus Kimhot
mortuus est ; Johannes et Robertus vtlagati
fuerunt in Comitatu per sectam predict!
Thome.

(324.) Malefactores uenerunt de nocte
ad domum Andree de iinz et eum robaue-
runt : nescitur qui fuerunt.

(325.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum Galfridi sturdi et eum robaue-
runt : nescitur qui fuerunt.

(326.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum Tumioc de Iinz, vidue, et earn
robauerunt : nescitur qui fuerunt [et hute-
sium fuit leuatum] ; et quia villate de Iinz,
Gamfeld, Croc, et Burseblades non pre-
sentauerunt istam roberiarn coram vice-
comite ad Comitatum, ideo in misericordia ;
et quia Radulfus seruiens falsuin presentauit,
ideo in misericordia.

(327.) Malefactores venerunt ad domum
Nocke de medmeslege et earn robauerunt :

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67

nescitur qui fuerunt; et hutesium fuit
leuatum. Et quia villate de Medmqsle,
Bradele, Ebecestre, et benefeldsede non
presentauerunt istani Eoberiam in tempore
loquendum. H. de Noketon, ideo loquendum.

(328.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum Stephaiii de finiis et eum
ligauerunt et robauerunt : nescitur qui
fuerunt [hutesium fuit leuatum], et villata
de langecestre, quia non presentauit roberiam
istam coram Justiciariis, ideo in miseri-
cordia. Et quia predictus Stephanus dixit
quod villata de langecestre hoc presentauit,
misericordia. et non presentauit, ideo in misericordia.

(329.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte ad
Hospitale de Schipeweys et ligauerunt
Magistrum eiusdem Hospitalis et robaue-
runt : nescitur qui fuerunt [et hutesium
fuit leuatum]. Et quia villate de Cha-
bington, Bedlingtone, Slikeburne, et Neder-
tone non presentauerunt istam roberiam in
misericordia. Comitatu, ideo in misericordia.

(330.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum Philippi de Chabingtone et eum
robauerunt : nescitur qui fuerunt ; hutesium
fuit leuatum ; et quia villate de Chabintone,
Bedlintone, Slikeburn, et Nedertone non
presentauerunt istam roberiam ad Comita-
tum, ideo in misericordia.

(331.) Malefactores venerunt de nocte
ad domum Wiot de Burseblades et eum
robauerunt : nescifcur qui fuerunt.

misericordia.

(332.) Gerardus de Twisele, Waldel
Pastor de Stanlege, et Grilbertus de eadem
ligati fuerunt et robati : nescitur quis eos
robauit. Hutesium fuit leuatum. Et quia
villate de Kimeleswrthe, Wittone, Twisel,
et Edmanneslege non presentauerunt istam
roberiam in Comitatu, ideo in misericordia.

68

.... marce.

ASSIZE ROLL 223, 27 HENRY III.

(333.) Quidani Mercator extraneus ligatus
fuit et Robatus in hay a de Glattsheuid.

(334.) Radulfus de Bernaye pro stulti-
loquio in misericordia, per plegium Walteri
de Eggescliue.

(335.) Matilda filia Robert! lange de
Pokerlege appellauit Adam Joggolfe quod
die sabbati proxima ante festum sancti
Barnabe apostoli, in pace domini Regis et
Episcopi, in domo do mini Radulfi de
Fritheby in Harestone retinuit ipsam, et
rapnit earn nequiter et in feloniam. Postea
concordat! sunt, et predictus Adam dat
unam marcam pro licencia concordandi per
plegios predicte Matilde ; et est concordia
talis quod predictus Adam dat predicte
Matilde iiij01' marcas. Et Robertus seruiens
de Rauenshil, qui apellauit predictam
Matildam, appellatus de forcia in miseri-
cordia, quia conuictum est quod predictus
Adam qui appellatus fuit de facto fuit
culpabilis.

Mem. 6 dors.

Adhuc de Cestre.

eras. (336.) Hawisia filia Roberti de Alein-

cheles, que appellauit Gilbertum filium
Alexaiidri de eadem, non est presens : ideo

misericordia. ipsa et plegii sui de presencia in miseri-

cordia, scilicet Andreas de Edmund ebire et
Willelmus de Hunestaneswrthe ; et Gil-
bertus inde quietus.

(337.) De his qui sunt in custodiam
domini Episcopi : dicunt quod Ricardns de
Birune debet esse in custodia domini
Episcopi ; terra eius valet per annum iiij li.
viij sol., et predictus [Ricardus] est cum
domino Thoma de Tresley, nesciunt quo

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loquendum. Waranto, vnde loquendum cum domino

Episcopo.

(338.) Willelmus filius Patricii de Oswrth
esse debet in custodia domini Episcopi,
quam custodiam dominus Episcopus contulit
Archidiacoiio Norhumbrie, et Archidiaconus
Willelmo clerico suo., qui illam nunc tenet :
terra ilia valet per annum xl solidos.

(339.) De doniinabus : dicunt quod
domina Agneta mater Roberti filii Ricardi
de Byrun debet esse in custodia domini
Episcopi, que non est maritata; terra eius
valet per annum xliiij solidos.

(340.) Cristiana mater Martini de Swale-
welle debet esse in custodia domini Episcopi :
non est maritata ; terra sua valet per annum
dimidiam inarcam.

(341.) Beatrix de Roen de slikeburne
esse debet de donacione domini Episcopi :
non est maritata ; terra sua valet per annum
ciij solidos.

(342.) Alicia domina de Grenecroft esse
debet de donacione domini Episcopi: non
est maritata ; terra eius valet per annum
ij marcas.

(343.) Agneta Maidoc de Chabingtone
esse debet in donacione domini Episcopi :
non est maritata ; terra eius valet per
annum diiuidiain inarcam.

(344.) Domina Houda de Plausewrth
esse debet in donacione domini Episcopi :
non est maritata, ; terra eius valet per
annum ix sol. iiij01' d.

(345.) De Ecclesiis que sunt de donacione
domini Episcopi : dicunt quod Ecclesia de
laiigecestre esse debet de donacione domini
Episcopi,, et dominus Philippus de sancta

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Elena earn tenet per dominion Eicardum de
Marisco.

(346.) Johannes films Willelmi de
Argentein de Neutone debet esse in custodia
domini Episcopi, et modo est cum Emma
matre eius : terra sua valet per annum
Ix sol., et terra sua est in seisina domini
Episcopi.

(347.) Thomas filius WiUelmi de la
Chambre debet esse in custodia domini
Episcopi, et Robertus de la Mare habet
custodiam istam per balliuos domini Regis,
sumonetur. et ideo sumonetur quo Waranto ; et terra

ilia valet per annum x solidos.

(348.) Emma mater Johannis de Argen-
toin debet esse in custodia domini Episcopi,
set maritata est Willelmo Coco de propria
voluntate sua : terra sua est in maim domini
Episcopi, et valet per annum xx solidos.

(349.) Agneta mater Willelmi de Osewrthe
esse debet in custodia domini Episcopi, set
est maritata Galf rido de Scoland per Willel-
mum Olericum de voluntate Episcopi qui
nunc est : terra sua valet per annum xx
solidos.

(350.) Nicholaus Hathering de lamoslege
furatus fuit dimidium bussellum f rumenti in
horres Ricardi de Scruteuille et fugit; et
quia non malecreditur de alio latrocinio,
ideo rediat si voluerit, et inueniat plegios
de fidelitate.

(351.) Robertus dep Wdepathe et ada
socer eius burgauerunt domum Ricardi
Kippinc de langelege iioctanter ; et capti et
suspensi apud Dunelmum.

(352.) Margareta uxor Eadmundi de
Corneshou retata fuit de pannis furatis in
domo Johannis Latethewaterga, et in-

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71

prisonata apud Dunelmuin ; et venit coram
Justiciariis, et inquisicio facta f uit per xij
Juratores, qui dicunt quod malecredunt earn
de pannis f uratis, set de nullo alio latrocinio ;
et dicunt quod furata fuit predictos pannos
per Ebrietatem et non per feloniam, et ideo
Quieta. inde quieta ; et Ada films Jordan! de Ham-

stelis, qui fuit in societate predicte Mar-
Quietus, garete, venit et similiter quietus est per
patriam. Et quia Johannes latwaterga
non presentauit factum istud seruientij ideo
misericordia. in misericordia.

(353.) Eicardus stagge et Johannes
Gamellus frater eius de vnesleie capti
fuerunt pro latrocinio sex agnoruin qui
fuerunt Johamiis de Hansterlege ; et
Johannes mortuus est et male ere ditur, et
Gamellus non malecreditur : ideo quietus,
et inquirendum est de cattallis predicti
Johannis.

(354.) Duo malef actores hospitati fuerunt
in domo Simonis prepositi de Cestre per
vnam nocteni, et in crastino fugerunt et
dimiserunt ibi vnum equm precii iiij
solidorum, quos Johannes films Philippi
loquendum. habuit ; et ideo inde loquendum.

(355.) Tunnoc hoc de Quicham capta
fuit et inprisonata apud Dunelmuin pro
burgaria domus Willelmi de fernaccre, et
amisit auriculam per Indicium Curie.

(356.) Malefactores incogniti venerunt
de nocte ad domum Elye Capellani de
Heltone, et robauerunt eum de denariis
suis. Et villate de Hiltone, Suhtwic, Ber-
nestone, et Magnaboldone, quia non pre-
sentauerunt roberiam istam ad Comitatum,
misericordia. ideo in misericordia.

(357.) Robertus filius Johannis de slike-
burne fugit pro latrocinio duarum vaccarum
et viiius bouis et alterius vacce que fuit

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Johannis de Crauene de Slikeburne, et
malecreditur. Indicium : exigatur et vtla-

xxiiijorsol.: exigatur. getur. Catalla predict! Robert! xxiiij01' sol.,
vnde villata de slikebume Respoiidebit. Et
quia villata de Slikeburn non liabuit pre-
dictum Robertum coram Justiciariis, ideo

misericordia. in misericordia. Et quia conuictum est

quod predictus Eobertus post furtum illud,
per confessionem quam fecit Capellano suo,
satisfecit predict! s Johanni et Ade per
dictum Capellanum de precio furti, et ideo
hide loquendum ; set dieunt quod nesciunt
quis precium illud dicto Capellano cornmisit.

(358.) Quidam fugit de Comitatu Nor-
humbrie, Thomas scottus nomine, pro pannis
furatis apud Cremeliiitone, et fugit ad
Capellam de Cambhus et abiurauit regnum.

(359.) Gocelinus filius Tywe de luestan
fugit pro decor iacione ouium furatarum, et

exigatur. malecreditur. Indicium : exigatur ; et quia

villata de luestan non habuit predictum
Gocelinuin coram Justiciariis, ideo in miseri-

misericordia. cordia.

(360.) Nicholaus Gener Nicholae flipping
.de Medmislege et Ricardus Scottus de
Chepwelle fugerunt pro receptamento la-
tronum, et malecreduntur. Indicium : exi-
gantur. Cattalla predicti Nicholai xiij
sol., quos dominus Episcopus liabuit. Et
quia villata de Medmislege non habuit pre-
dictos Nicholaum et Ricardurn coram Justi-
ciariis, ideo in misericordia.

(361.) Adam cum Barba et Alexander

filius eius, maneiites in rochop, retati de

receptamento latro. Huteredi Rede latro-

post prandium. iiuni ; fugerunt et malecreduntur. ludicium :

exigaiitur per sectam Curie.

(362.) Robertus Biriiing de Kimelwrohe
captus t'uit et iiiprisonatus apud Dunelmum,
et replegiatus fuit per villatani de Kimel-

misericordia.

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73

wrthe ad esse coram Justiciariis : postea
fugit ; et quia villata de Kunelwrth non
habuit quern, plegiarent, ideo in miseri-
cordia. Indicium. : Robertus exigatur per
sectam curie : nicliil de cattallis, quia
Ricardus Episcopus ea habuit.

misericordia.

(363.) Ricardus Pastor de Plausewrthe
pro duabus vaccis furatis fugit et male-
creditur. ludicium : exigatur per sectam
Curie ; et villata de Plausewrthe, quia non
habuit predictum Ricardum coram Justi-
ciariis, ideo in misericordia : nichil de
cattallis, quia Episcopus ea habuit.

(364.) Radulfus Cokeman de Cestre
fugit pro quodam porco furato, qui fuit
laurencii de Cestre : laurencius non vult
sequi uersus eum, et ideo rediat si voluerit,
et inueniat plegios de fidelitate. Cattalla
Radulfi xij d.

exaccio.

misericordia.

(365.) Norman films Arkil de magna
Osewrth fugit pro auena furata et pro ij
ouibus, et malecreditur. ludicium : exaccio
per sectam Curie ; et quia villata de Magna
Osewrth non habuit predictum Normannum
coram Justiciariis, ideo in misericordia.

misericordia.

(366.) Thomas films Warini de Bermi-
stone fugit pro duobus pullanis furatis, et
malecreditur. ludicium: exaccio per sectam
Curie. Et quia villata de Bermistone non
habuit predictum Thomam coram lusti-
ciariis, ideo in misericordia.

misericordia.

(367.) Willelmus films Roberti de Bol-
clone fugit pro una oue furata, et male-
creditur. ludicium : exigatur per sectam
Curie. Cattalla predict! W[illelmi], unde
villata de Boldone respondebit; et villata
de Boldene pro fuga ipsius Willelmi in
misericordia.

74 ASSIZE BOLL 223, 27 HENRY in.

(868.) Johannes Blake, Bercarius de
Osewrthe, et hutting filius eius fugerunt
pro ouibus furatis, et malecreduntur. ludi-
exaccio. cium : exaccio per sectam Curie ; et villata

de Osewrth pro fuga ipsorum in miseri-
cordia.

(369.) Willelmus filius Orm de Magna
Osewrthe de Johanne de Coquina pro tribus
ouibus furatis, et malecreditur. Indicium :
exigatur per sectam Curie ; et villata de
inagna Osewrthe pro fuga ipsius in miseri-
cordia.

(370.) De defaltis : Elias de linemue,
manens in Schabintone, Walterus de bothal,
manens in Nedertone, Elias filius Roberti
de Chabintone, Siluester de Berlin gtone,
Patricius de suhtwic, petrus le Brasur,
Roger us de Charlowe, domina Alicia de
Grenecroft, et Simon gener baldewini de
Oswthe non venerunt primo die : ideo in
misericordia.

(371.) Ricardus de Paris inprisonatus
fuit pro rapo.

(372.) Johannes clericus captus fuit pro
cims de Mazer furatis in magna ecclesia
sancti Cuthberti: euasit, et postea per
sectam captus fuit et inprisonatus apud
Dunelmum.

ASSIZE ROLL 224

M. 1. Placita Assisarum apud Satberge die Martis proxima
festum Saiicti Oswald! coram Dominis Roberto filio Meldred',
Johanne de Rumes', Gralfrido filio Galfridi et Jordano
Hey run, Justiciariis.

(373.) Margeria que fuit uxor Willelmi
filii Jellani de Dentone sequitur uersus
Umfridum de Hatone per breve de Precipe ;
et Vmfridus uenit, et dicta Margeria relaxat
ei totum clamium suum de tercia parte
triam acrarum terre et de tercia parte
dimidii molendiui de Dentone. Et pro hac
relaxacione dictus Vmfridus dat ei dimidiam
marcam. Et ita concordat! sunt per li-
cenciam.

(374.) Eadem sequitur uersus Gralfridum
de Gifforde per idem breve de tercia parte
v acrarum in eadem uilla ; et concordati
sunt per licenciam, et dictus Gralfridus dat
ei dimidiam marcam.

Eadem dicit quod Thomas de Burdone
satisfecit ei per preceptum brevis.

Eodem niodo dicit de Roberto filio Martini.

Similiter et de Gralfrido de Ferye.

(375.) Ingeram de Castro Bernard!,
Clericus, sequitur uersus Hugonem serui-
entem de eidem per breve de quodam muro
leuato ad Nocumentum liberi tenement! sui
in eadem Hugo, uenit et defendit. Et pre-
dictus Igeraui retrahit se, et ideo ipse et
plegii sui in misericordia, scilicet Ricardus
tingtor de Derlington et Walterus tinctor
miserioordia. de eadem.

(376.) Rogerus Auceps de Eglescliue
sequitur uersus Matildam que fuit uxor

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Roger! filii Rauen et Walterum filiuin suum
de eadem per breve domini episcopi de
quodain muro et fossato leuatis in Eglescliue
ad nocumentum liberi tenement] sni in
eadem. Matilda uenit per Walterum de
Eglescliue, clericum, attornatum suum, et
dicit quod non habet brevi suo respondere,
quia, cum dictus Roger us nichil tenet in
Eglescliue nisi per vxorem suam, non debet
ad hoc breve respondere. Et dictus Roger us
in misericordia. Ponunt se tamen am bo in
arbitrio.

(377.) Warinus de Munchenesy et Dyo-
nisa uxor sua tulerunt breve domini episcopi
de dote super Simonem, Archidiaconum
Cantuariensem, in Sumeruse, vnde nichil
habet. Preceptum est Vicecomiti quod idem
Archidiaconus summoneatur quod sit apud
Dunelmum coram iusticiariis die iouis in
crastino decollacionis Sancti Johannis, hide
dictis Warino et Dionisie uxori sue respon-
surus.

super Toys

(378.) Walterus Clericus de Eglescliue
sequitur uersus Robertum de Aselakeby per
breve mortis antecessoris de dimidia caru-
cata terre in Eglescliue : veniunt et coii-
cordati sunt per licenciain. Et predictus
Robertus uenit et recognouit totam predictam
terrain cum pertinenciis esse ius et heredi-
tatem dicti Walteri. Et et pro hac recogni-
cione idem Walterus dat dicto Roberto
xx s., et Galfrido filio ipsius Roberti pro
homagio suo et seruicio ij bouatas terre de
eadem terra cum capitali mesuagio, excepta
una domo cum pertinenciis extra curam.

(379.) Johannes de Coyneres tulit breve
domini episcopi de exaltacione cuiusdam
stagni super dominuin Abbatem de Riuall
ad nocumentum liberi tenementi sui in
Sokeburne. Et assisa uenit et dicit quod
exaltauit stagnum sicut breve dicit ; et ideo

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77

dampna clericis. dictus Abbas in misericordia, et considera-
tum est quod stagnum debeat ammensurari
dimidia maroa. per Juratores. Dampna, dimidia marca.

(380.) Assisa venit recognicionis si
Mcholaus de Fardune et Elizabeth uxor
eius, Eicardus de Charteiiey et Matilda uxor
eius iniuste et sine iudicio dissaisierunt
Ricardum de Exenhale de Commuiia pasture
sua in Hurtheworthe post primam cor ,
etc. Et iuratores dicunt quod dissaisierunt
eum, ut continetur in brevi. Ideo omnes
ipsi dissaisiatores in misericordia. Dampna
vj d.

misericordia.
dampna clericis.

(381.) Inquisicio facta est per Juratores
si uillate de Burdone, Mortone. Neeshani,
Hurth worth, Eglescliue, Asalakeby, si de-
beant auxiliari ad custodiendum latrones
apud Satberge et ad cariandum eos. Jura-
tores dicunt quod uillate de Hortheworthe,
Neesham, Eglescliue, Asalakeby, tenentur
ad ista auxiliari, set assiduius tenentur
auxiliari ad latrones qui capti sunt in
Wapentacio extra uillam de Satberge quam
ad eos qui capti sunt infra uillam de Sat-
berge. Juratores petunt respectum super
Mortone et Burdone, quoniam non dum cer-
tificati sunt utrum debeant auxiliari ad ista
aut non.

Et quia uillate de Neesham, Horthe-
worthe, Eglescliue, Asalakeby, istud dedix-
misericordie. erant, ideo in misericordia.

Et predicta iurata uenit et dicit quod
Burdone tenetur auxiliari ad supradictam
custodiam latronum et prisonum sicut
Neesham et cetere uillate. Et facta est
Jurata hec die ueneris proxima post decolla-
cionem beati Johannis. Et inquisicio petit
respecturn super Mortone, et habet diem
usque diem Lune proximam post Octabas
Sancti Michaelis.

Et quia uillata de Bur tone istud seruicium
concelauit, ideo tota uillata de Burtone in
misericordia.

78 ASSIZE BOLL 224, 53 HENRY ITI.

misericordie. (382.) Eicardus de Charteney et Nicho-

laus de Fardone in misericordia, quia non
fecerunt vis am de exaltacione stagni vnde
Johannes de Coyneres tulit breve super
Abbatem de Eiualle. Similiter Eadulfus
super Teysa in misericordia, quia subtraxit
se de eadem assisa.

inisericordie.

[m. 1 dors.]

Teysa.

(383.) Abbas de Eglestane et Mgellus
de Eungetone in misericordia, quia con-
cordati sunt de quodam brevi sine licencia.

(384.) Warinus de Munchenesey et Dio-
nisa uxor eius f aciunt attornatum sumn de
Eicardo Erchembaud contra Magistrum
Simonem, Archidiaconum Cantuariensem,
de placito terre.

(385.) Matilda de Eglescliue et Emma
sororeius, Walterus de Aslackeby, Juliana
uxor eius, f aciunt attornatum suum cle
Waltero de Eglescliue, clerico, uersus Eo-
bertum de Eglescliue de placito terre. Et
totum ius suum et clamium remittunt eidem
Waltero clerico.

(386.) Ancita de Clara f aciunt attorna-
tum suum Thomam de Lafool et Johannem
Burdone de placito terre contra Thomam
Carro.

(387.) Eogerus filius Willelmi de Joelby
ponit loco suo Willelmum le Hoppere de
placito terre uersus Hugonem de Cotum
Mundeville ad lucrandum uel perdendum.

(388.) Eadulfus de Sur Teysa ponit loco
suo Walterum fratrem suum ad lucrandum
uel perdendum uersus Johannem de Coy-
neres de placito pasture.

(389.) Eicardus de Charteney et Matilda
uxor eius ponunt loco suo Willelmum
filium suum ad lucrandum uel perdendum

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de placito exaltacionis stagni uersus Ricar-
dum de Exenhale.

(390.) Matilda uxor Eicardi de Charte-
ney ponit loco suo dictum Eicardum uirum
suum ad lucrandum uel perdendum uersus
Priorem Dunelmensem de placito terre.

(391.) Elizabetha vxor Nicholai de Farn-
done ponit loro suo Nicholaum uirum suum
uersus eundem Priorem de placito terre.

(392.) Thomas de Mordone et Margeria
vxor eius ponunt loco suo Willelmum filium
suum ad lucrandum uel perdendum de placito
terre uersus Elyam piscatorem de Stoke-
tone et Johannem filium Alicie et Aylwinum
de Stoke tone.

(393.) Eog-erus films Willelmi de Joelby
ponit loco suo Siluestrum, Balliuum de
Derlington, ad lucrandum uel perdendum
de placito terre uersus Hugonem de Cotun.
Et remittit eidem Siluestro totum ius suum
et clamium de eodem placito.

(394.) Agnes vxor Walteri Bure facit
attornatum suum de Waltero viro suo contra
Stephanum filium Elfini de placito noue
dissaisine.

(395.) Thomas,, Prior Dunelmensis, facit
attornatum suum de Hurico Janitore uel de
Hugone Mar seal lo contra Plesenciam filiam
Willelmi Britonis de placito terre.

(396.) Idem Thomas Prior facit attorna-
tum suum de eisdem contra Aliciam que
fuit uxor Stephani Cantuariensis de placito
terre.

(397.) Idem Prior facit attornatum suum
de Magistro Willelmo de la haie et de Wil-
lelmo Heyrun contra villatam de Norham de
placito de communi pastura.

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ASSIZE BOLT, 224, 53 HENRY III.

deo dandum
x s.

Rotuli de placitis Justiciariorum de Wapentaldo de Sa<l-
berge Anno Pontificates Domini Ricardi Duiielmensis Epis-
copi viij°.

[m. 2.] (398.) Dicunt quod Laurencius filius

Vtting de Nelestoiie submersus fuit in mari
juxta Smalecliwe ; primus inuentor Vt ting-
pater eius : uenit et non male creditur.
Judicium, infortunium.

(399.) Alicia de Morellestone fuit com-
busta in domo Robert! Ker ; primus inuen-
tor Agnes mater eius : uenit et 11011 male
creditur. Judicium, infortunium.

(400.) Johannes filius Johannis tray-
natus fuit per quod am Equum ita quod
obiit ; primus inuentor Andreas filius Ed-
wardi: uenit et non male creditur. Judi-
cium, Infortunium : precium equi x s.

(401.) Philippus Mandyer percnssit Ali-
ciam filiam Willelrni in Hurthewurte ita
quod obiit ; predictus Philippus fugit :
exigatur et vtlagetur. Et Robertus filius
Dauid et Willelmus filius Thome, attachiati
pro morte ipsa, ueniunt et aquietaiitur per
xij ; set quia conuictum est per xij quod
malo modo luseraiit cum predicto Philippo,
per quod prouocatus fuit ad dandum ictum
ilium, Ideo inprisonentur ut gaetigentur.

(402.) WillelmuB Doget robatus fuit de
sex solidis inter Neutone et Aslakeby.
Primus inuentor Nicholaus le Bretone :
nescitur qui fuerunt. Et quia predictus
Nicholaus non leuauit vtesium, ideo in
misericordia.

(403.) Walterus de Cletlum fuit sub-
mersus in hod ; primus inuentor Hugo le
Maysun : uenit et non male creditur. Judi-
cium, Infortunium.

(404.) Alicia de Conesclyue scaturizata
fuit in quodam Plumbo ita quod obiit:
deo danduro ij s. precium Plumbi ij s.

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81

(405.) Quidam extraneus inuentus fuit
mortuus : submersus fuit Tesia ; primus
inuentor Hugo filius Symonis : uenit et non
male creditur. Judicium Infortunium.

(406.) Walterus Gildelad de Clethun
robatus fuit per malefactores : nescitur qui
fueruiit. Et quia villata non cepit eos, Ideo
loquendum. loquendum .

(407.) Adam de Lyndessey submersus
fuit in Tesia ; primus inuentor Symon filius
Willelmi : uenit et non male creditur.
Teyse. Judicium, infortunium.

(408.) Hugo filius Willelmi submersus
fuit in Tesia; primus inuentor Willelmus
pater eius : uenit et non male creditur.
Judicium, infortunium : equs non fuit in
potestate Episcopi.

(409.) Willelmus Oter submersus fuit in
Tesia; primus inuentor Alanus filius Eicardi:
uenit et non male creditur. Judicium,
infortunium.

(410.) Malefactores uenerunt ad domum
Galefridi Boy. Et eum robauerunt. Et
Agnetem vxorem eius occiderunt ; predictus
Galefridus et Beatricia filia Alexandri, que
fuerunt in domo, attachiati ueniunt coram
Justiciariis,, et non sunt culpabiles : nescitur
qui fuerunt. Et quia villata de Cleth'i non
cepit eos, ideo misericordia.

(411.) Malefactores uenerunt ad domum
Petronille filie Alwini noctanter et robaue-
runt earn, set nescitur qui fuerunt. Et vil-
lata de Cotum et de Aedmundeswille, qui
loquendum. non cepit eos, ideo loquendum.

(412.) Yielet uielator submersus fuit in
Tesia juxta molendinum in Tesedale de equo
suo ; primus inuentor Kobertus Artel : uenit

teysa. et non male creditur. Judicium, Infortu-

deo dandum x s. nium : precium equi x s.

teyse.

misericordia.

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loquendum.

loquendum.
teyse.

deo dandum.

ASSIZE BOLL 224, 53 HENRY III.

(413.) Stephanus de Lanker inuentus
fuit submersus in Alewent; primus inuentor
Walterus iilius ems : uenit et non male
creditur. Judicium, Infortunium.

Stephanus molendinarius et Ricardus car-
pentarius, de cuius domo exiuit, uenit et
non male creditur.

(414.) Malefactores uenerunt et wul-
nauerunt Cristianam de Rydelunge In ospi-
tali de Batel Ita quod obiit, et robauerunt
Eliam Wydhod de iij s. : nescitur qui fue-
runt.

(415.) Malefactores uenerunt ad domurn
Rogeri filii Edofe de Boluni et robauerunt
eum : nescitur qui fuerunt. Et villata de
Boluni quia non cepit, loquendum.

(416.) Malefactores uenerunt ad domum
Johannis filii Margarete. Et robauerunt
eum, set nescitur qui fuerunt. Et quia
villata de Dentone non cepit eos, Ideo
loquendum.

(417.) Quidam extraneus inuentus fuit
submersus in stangno de Pontayse : primus
inuentor Rogerus Bunting. Et essoniatur
de morte. Judicium, infortunium.

(418.) Ada vxor luonis inuenta fuit
mortua in Bosco de Merewude : Vlphus
films Rogeri primus inuentor.

(419.) Quedam puercula scaturiaata fuit
per unam ollam eneun Ita quod obiit : pre-
cium Olle xij d., qui dati fuerunt matri
puerule.

(420.) Eobertus filius Walteri de Garle-
stone indictatus fuit per quendam proba-
torem : uenit et non male creditur.

(421.) Betricia filia Rogeri de Cletelum,
que appellauit Robertum Molendinarium de

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83

valetti.
Warde.

de dominabus.

vidue.

rapo, uenit et retraxit se. Ideo ipsa et
plegii sui in misericordia : condon ....

(422.) Benedictus molendinarius Et Tho-
mas filius Alani fabri indictati fuerunt per
quendam probatorem : ueniunt et non male
creditur.

(423.) Robertus probator habuit xv ag-
nos precii x s. Rogerus de Garmundesway
respondebit.

(424.) De ualettis et puellis : dicunt
quod heres de Setone dicitur esse in cus-
todia Domini Episcopi. Archiepiscopus
habet eum per dominum Episcopum, et
cuidam nepti dicti Archiepiscopi ; terra sua
ualet xxx libras.

(425.) Radulfus filius Eoulandi Baar
esse dicitur in custodia Episcopi. Ricardus
de Wykes habet eum per dominum Episco-
pum : terra sua ualet iiij li.

(426.) Willelmus filius Ricardi de Bur-
done dicitur esse in custodia Episcopi.
Johannes de Rumes' habuit eum : terra sua
ualet ij in areas.

(427.) Thomas, heres de Aslageby, esse
dicitur in custodia Episcopi et maritatus
est : terra sua ualet xx li.

(428.) De dominabus : dicunt quod do-
mina Plesencia est in donacione Episcopi ;
terra sua ualet x li.

(429.) Margeria que fuit vxor Radulfi
Baard similiter : terra sua ualet Ix s.

(430.) Alicia que fuit vxor Walteri de
/ Cam similiter : terra sua iiij li.

(431 .) Berta que fuit vxor Roulandi Baar
similiter : terra sua ualet ij m areas et dimi-
diam,

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vidue.

(432.) Alicia que fuit vxor Eicardi de
Burdone similiter ; est maritata : terra sua
ualet j marcam.

(433.) Elizabet esse dicitur, etc.; est
maritata : terra sua ualet c s.

(434.) Domina de Treteham maritanda
est, set nescifcur per quern.

(435.) Domina de Setone maritata est
Kicardo de Schartenay per se. Et de hoc
satisfecit domino Episcopo.

[M. 2 dors.]

Et satisfecit domino Episcopo.
Item de ueredicto Ballive de Sadberge.

de ecclesiis. (436.) De ecclesiis : dicunt quod ecclesia

de Eggelechine est in donacione Episcopi.
Robertas de Sancto Albano habet ea per
N. episcopum.

(437.) Ecclesia de Longa Neutone est in
donacione Episcopi. Magister Archidiaco-
nus de Derby tenet illam.

(438.) Robertus de Scyluedone, qui ap-
pellavit Philippum de Ellestob de felonia et
roberia Et Johannem hominem Philippi et
Willelmum de Ellesstobe et Johannem de
Elestob de vi, uenit et illud dicit in appello
suo per quod possit duellum uadiari. Ideo
ueritas inquiratur per xij, qui dicunt quod
predicti Philippus, Johannes, Willelmus et
Johannes uerberauerunt predictum Rober-
tum et male detractauerunt, vnde damp-
natus ad ualenciam de x s.

(439.) Alanus Warin tenet vnarn caru-
catam terre in Sadberge per seriantiam
Corone.

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de defaltis.

(440.) De mensuris : dicunt quod men-
sure bene seruantur, set modus mensurarum
lion bene seruatur : ideo preceptum est ut
seruetur.

(441.) De latitudine pannorum : dicunt
quod Burgi noii bene seruant latitudinem
pannorum.

(442.) De vinis: dicunt quod omnia uina
uenduntur contra assisam.

(443.) Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, Prior
Dunelmeiisis, prior de Tynmue, Johannes de
Balliolo, Robertus films Meldred', Rogerus
Bertram, Johannes de Bulmer, Rogerus
Bertram de Bottehole, Robertus de Neelle-
stoiie. Et in Mideltone in Tesedale Jo-
hannes filius Andree, Robertus Mareschallus,
Robertus filius Grilberti, Thomas filius
Warini. Et preterea Doininus Nicholaus
de Frameuille, Willelmus de Eggeleston,
clericus, Matheus filius Roberti capellani
de Stertlum, Nigellus de eadem, Eustachius
frater Domini Johannis de Bayllol, Philip-
pus de Neuille, Hugo le Franceys de Sunier-
vse, Robertus de Vmframuille, Walterus
Spar, Heiiricus Swyn de Houtone, Vmfridus
de eadem, Ricardus Harpin, Willelmus de
Lumeley, Willelmus de Sumeruille, Bernard
le Maym, Willelmus de Sparham, Robertus
de Marol, Wybertus de Seleby, Hugo de
Bikertone, Alaiius filius Philippi de Gayn-
ford, Radulfus de Amundeville, Willelmus
de Lewynthopp, Ricardus de Gistone, Wil-
lelmus Hasard de Mideltone, Thomas de
eadem, Ricardus de Wykes, Symon filius
Reginaldi de Herteburne, Robertus filius
Alani de Carkebyre, Prior de Hexhildesham,
Stephanus de ISTortone Tynernue, Robertus
Burdone de Elstob, Rogerus de Garmundes-
way de Cotone super Tesiam, Henricus de
Eu, Willelmus de Meynhermer.

(444.) De kidellis : dicunt quod omnes
molendini juxta Tesiam capiunt minutos
salmones per kydellos et alia retia stricta.

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(445.) De Warennis et parcis : dicunt
quod Radulfus Surtayse liabet Warennam
in Ditteneshale, set nesciunt quo waranto.

(446.) Johannes de Baillul inclusit quen-
. dam parcum in Harewude, set nescitur per
quern.

(447.) Seman de Boil wulnerauit Tho-
mam Tracy Ita quod obiit. Dictus Seman
fugit. Judiciuui, exigatur et vtlagetur :
catalla eius xxij s. vj d., vnde vicecomes
respondebit.

Et vicecomes et coronator in misericordia,
qui non attachiaverunt illos qui fuerunt
in donio in quam dicti Thomas et Seman
exierunt. Et quia vicecomes coronator non
attachiavit illos qui fuerunt in do mo vbi
dictus Thomas moriebatur, in misericordia.
Et vicecomes in misericordia, quia dixit
quod Seman vtlagatus fuit. Et conuictum
est per xij quod non fuit vtlagatus. Et
totum Wapentake in misericordia, quia non
utlagauit eum, ex quo Emma vxor eius
sufficientem sectam fecit ad eius vtlagacio-
nem. Et predicta Emma in misericordia,
quia non est prosequta coram Justiciariis.
Et villa de Stanyntone in misericordia pro
fuga dicti Semanny.

Item vere dictum Burgi de Sadberge.

(448.) De ueteribus placitis : dicunt quod
villate de Asselageby, Eggescliue et Nor-
tone facere debent sectam cum Burgo de
Sadberge ad custodiendum prisones et ad
incarcerandum latrones et malefactores, ad
faciendum Judicia de latronibus et aliis
indictis. Et illam sectam facere nolunt.

Postea, ut huius rei ueritas inquiratur
melius, requisiti sunt super hoc xij milites
de Wapentake, qui dicunt super sacramen-
tum suum quod predicte sectam illam et
seruicium illud facere debent. Et quod

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semper a tempore quo Wapentake Sadbergie
redditum fuit episcopis, consueuerunt illam
facere. Et quod episcopi fuerunt in saysina
in seruicio eiusdem, quousque Thomas de
Aslakeby, qui nunc est dominus dictarum
villarurn, illud subtraxit per uoluntatem
suam. Et quod dicte uillate tempore dicti
Thome fecerunt sectam illarn aliquando^
Ita quidem quod per redempcionem uel alio
modo satisfecit pro se et hominibus suis
Balliuis de Wapentake de secta ilia. Et
quod a tempore dicti Thome dicti Thome
vsque nuric subtracta est secta ilia. Ideo
consideratum est quod Episcopus recuperat
saysinam suam de seruicio illo et secta ilia.
Et predicte villate in misericordia, qui sub-
traxerunt se.

Palcita de Sadberge.

[M. 3.] Placita assisarum Wapentacii de Satberge apud
Dunelmum coram Justiciariis in crastino decollacionis beati
Johannis Baptiste.

falsa loquela : (449.) Nicholaus plumbarius et Agnes

mrotulanda est m uxor eius tulerunt breve de Precipe uersus

rotulo assisarum „ , 1P n a •

Dunelmi. Jttadulium de Blacwelle de 1113° acris terre

et uno tofto cum pertinenciis in uilla de
Blacwelle, Et uersus Galfridum filium Dauid
de duabus acris terre cum pertinenciis in
eadem. Dicti Radulfus et Galfridus veninnt
et concord ati sunt,, videlicet quod predicti
Nicholaus et Agnes quietum clamant totum
ius et clamium quod habuerunt in dictis
iiij01 acris et uno tofto cum pertinenciis dicto
Radulfo. Et dictus Radult'us dat eisdem
Nicholao et Agneti ij marcas. Et item
quietum clamant totum ius et clamium quod
habuerunt in predictis duabus acris terre
cum pertinenciis dicto Galfrido filio david.
Et predictus Galfridus dat eisdem Nicholao
et Agneti unam marcam.

(450.) Ricardus de Chartray et Matilda
uxor eius tulerunt breve de exaltacione

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cuiusdam stagni in Hortheworthe uersus
Eicardum de Oxenhale. Bicardus de Oxen-
misericordie. nale ueiiit. Et dictus Bicardus de Chartray

et Matilda uxor eius non sequntur, set
optuleruut qnendam falsuin attornatum,
qui non reperiebatur in rotulis. Ideo dicti
Bicardus et Matilda uxor eius et plegii
eorum in misericordia, Scilicet Willelmus
de Skyringeham et Edmundus deNewetone.

(451.) Eadulfus de sur Teysam tulit
breve quo iure uersus Johannem de Coy-
neres et uersus Willelmum del Estre et
Aliciam uxoreni eius de Comuna. Johannes
uenit, et Willelmus del Estre et Alicia uxor
eius ueiiiunt et dicunt quod non directam
habuerunt summonicionem. Et ideo datus
est eis dies a Banco die Lune proxima post
octabas sancti Michaelis.

(452.) Johannes de Heriz tulit breve
noue dissaisine uersus Willelmum postel et
Matildam uxorem eius de libero tenemento
suo in uilla de Gretharn : predicti Willel-
mus et Matilda uxor eius ueniunt. Et
dictus Johannes retraxit se, et ideo ipse et
misericordie. plegii sui in misericordia, videlicet Wal-

terus Smire et Eobertus de Daltone.

(453.) Walterus de Tesedale tulit breve
de morte antecessoris uersus Bicardum de
Oxenhale de duabus bouatis terre cum per-
tinenciis in Hurtheworthe : dictus Eicardus
warantia. uenit et uocauit ad warantiam plesenciam

filiam et heredem Willelmi Britonis, et car-
tas Willelmi Britonis ostendit, cuius heres
ipsa est. Et ideo consideratuin est quod
dicta plesencia summonenda est uenire
coram iusticiariis die Lune proxima post
octabas sancti Michaelis ad respondendum
si predictani terrain predicto Eicardo uelit
warantizare uel non.

(454.) Willelmus de Burdone sequitur
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mum de Herleye de una bouata terre cum
pertinenciis in Burdone. Dictus Willelmus
de Herlesbeye non uenit et assoniatus est.
dies datus. Et ideo datus est ei dies ueniendi coram

iusticiariis die Lune proxiina post octabas
sancti Michaelis respondendum dicto Wil-
lelmo de Bur done de placito quo eum coram
eisdem implacitat.

(455.) Alanus nlius Johannis dispensa-
toris sequitur per breve de morte ante-
cessoris uersus Radulfum russele. Radulfus
non uenit et assoniatus. Et ideo datus est
ei dies ueniendi coram iusticiariis die Lune
proxima post octabas Sancti Michaelis ad
respondendum dicto Alano de placito quo
eum coram eisdem iusticiariis implicitat.

(456.) Ada nlius Stephani de Westam-
tone sequitur per breve mortis antecessoris
uersus Matheum fiKum Hugonis Trayne de
Ix acris terre cum pertinenciis in eadem
uilla. Matheus uenit et dicit quod non
debet ei per breve tale respondere nee assisa
inde capi debet, quia predictus Ada posuit
in uisu suo quamdam terrain quam hospita-
larii tenent. Et inde ponunt se ambo super
iuratam. Et

Et Jurata uenit et dicit quod uerum est
quod hospitalarii tenent quandam terrain
quam posuit in uisu suo. Et ideo con-
sideratum est quod dictus Matheus inde
misericordia. recedat sine die. Et dictus Ada in miseri-

cordia. Plegii, Bicardus de Oxenhale et
Johannis de Hetlum.

(457.) Ysouda que fuit uxor Walteri
filii Synd' de Edene tulit breve de dote
uersus Prior em de Finch ale de racionabili
dote sua. Predictus Prior uenit efc uocat
ad warantiam Nigellum de Edene. Et
Nigellus uenit et warantizat. Et facit pre-
dicte Ysoude racionabilem dotem suam.

(458.) Martinus Coyman sequitur per
breve sumn de ingressu uersus Ysoudam

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que fuit uxor Benedict! de Herte de medie-
tate unius mesuagii cum pertinenciis in
Herterpol et medietate unius Crofti cum
pertinenciis in eadem. Dicta Ysouda non
uenit. Et assoniata est. Et habet diem,
scilicet diem lune proximam post octabas
sancti Michaelis.

(459.) Willelmus films Eicardi de Bur-
done sequitur per breve de Precipe uersus
Thoinam de Bur done de una bouata terre
cum pertinenciis in eadem. Thomas uenit
et dicit quod terram illam habet per emmam
sororem Willelmi aui predicti Willelmi
petentis, que terram illam emit. Et quod
dare et ueridere earn potuit. Et predictus
Willelmus films Eicardi uenit et dicit quod
dicta emma non habuit terram illam nisi
de prestito Willelmi fratris ipsius emme,
vnde earn non potuit alienare. Et inde
ponunt se super inquisicionem.

Jurata uenit et dicit quod dicta Emma
dictam Bouatam terre cum pertinenciis
emit in feodo de predicto Willelmo auo
predicti Willelmi petentis. Et dicta Emma
dictam Bouatam terre uendidit cum per-
tinenciis dicto Thome de Burdone pro xvj
solidis in feodo, vnde consideratum est quod
dictus Thomas inde recedat sine die. Et
misericordia. dictus Willelmus in misericordia : plegius,

Eicardus de Burdone.

(460.) Elyanore que fuit uxor Eustachii
de Newetone petit per breve de Precipe
uersus Eicardum filium g. racionabilem
dofcem suam, que earn contingit de libero
tenemento quod fuit Eustachii quondam
uiri sui in eadem. Et predictus Eicardus
non uenit nee respoiisalem pro se misit :
ideo consideratum est per iusticiarios quod
tercia pars predicti tenement! capiatur in
manu domini episcopi. Et quod dictus
Eicardus summoneatur uenieiidum coram
iusticiariis ad respondendum de defalta sua
et de capitali placito.

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(461.) Thomas filius Patricii petit uersus
Ricardum de Oxenale per breve domini
episcopi et Rogerum de Garmundeweye de
dimidia acra carucata terre cum pertinenciis
in Horthevvorthe. Predicti Ricardus et
Rogerus ueniunt, et omnes concordat! per
licenciam, videlicet quod predicti Rucardus
et Rogerus recognouerunt totam predictam
terram cum pertineneiis esse ius et clamium
predicti Thome. Et predictus Thomas pro
hac recognicione quietam clam at totam
predictam terram cum pertinenciis dictis
Ricardo et Rogero, teiiendam earn de ipso
per seruicium unius dirnidie libre cumini.
Et pro hac donacione et quiet a clamacione
dederunt predicti Ricardus et Rogerus
quadraginta solidos dicto Thome. Et pro
licencia concordanda dederunt predicti Ri-
cardus et Rogerus x s. sterlingerum domino
* s. episcopo. Plegius horum x s., Ricardus de

Oxenhale.

(462.) Berteramus filius Laurentii sequi-

tur per breve mortis antecessoris uersus

Reginaldum de Hert, clericum. Et idem

dies datus. regiiialdus assoniatus est et habet diem

usque die Lune predictam.

(463.) Walterus de Cletlum sequitur
per breve de ingressu uersus Willelmum
filium Galfridi de Satberge. Et idem Wil-
lielmus assoniatus est : habet diem sicut
prius.

(464.) Thomas Garrov sequitur per breve
suum uersus Auiciam de Clare de duabus
partibus duarum carucatarum cum perti-
nenciis in Ouetone. Et Laurencius de
Lasceles et Johannes de Burdone, attornati
dicte Auicie, essoniati simt : habent diem
sicut prius.

(465.) Ricardus Erchinbaud, attornatus
Warini de Muiichenesy et Dionisie uxoris
sue, sequitur uersus magistrurn Simonem,

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Archidiaconum Cantuariensem, per breve
de dote in Sumeruse. Et habet diem in
crastino animarum.

(466.) Rogerus films Willelmi de Johelby
petit per breve de Precipe uersus Hugonem
de Cotun unam bouatam terre cum perti-
nenciis in eadem uilla. Rogerus uenit per
Siluestrum attornatum suum. Et Hugo
similiter uenit. Et concordati sunt, scilicet
quod dictus Hugo dat dicto Siluestro, attor-
nato dicti Rogeri, dimidiam marcam. Et
dictus Rogerus per Siluestrum attornatum
suuui quietum clam at totum ius suum et
clamium quod habuit in predicta terra dicto
Hugoni. Et quia concordati sunt sine
misericordie. licencia, Ideo uterque in misericordia.

(467.) Plesencia filia Willelmi Britonis
sequitur per breve suum de precipe uersus
Radulf um de Edmundeuille de homagio suo
capiendo. Et ambo ueniunt et habent diem
usque diern Lune sicut supra.

[m. 4.] Placita assisarum Wapentagii de Satberge apud
Dunelmum die Lune proxima post octabas beati Michaelis
coram eisdem iusticiariis.

visus. (468.) Thomas de Carro sequitur per

breve suum de Precipe uersus Auiciam de
Clare de duabus partibus duarum caruca-
tarum terre cum pertinenciis in Ouetone,
excepta una bouata terre cum pertinenciis.
Dicta Auicia uenit per attornatum suum
Johannem de Burdone, et petit visum illius
terre, et conceditur ei et habet. Et datus est
ei dies respondendi in crastino sanctiHy]arii,
et dies visus est datus est die Jouis sequenti.
Et Walterus de Hadham et Hauisia vxor
eius, Ricardus de Yelande et Matilda vxor
eiuSj veniunt et ponuiit clamum suum in
predicta terra.

(469.) Willelmus de Burdone sequitur
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Hallemot.

misericordia
condonatur.

Etas.

mortis antecessoris de una bouata terre cum
pertinenciis in Burdone, excepta una acra
terre et dimidia. Dictus Willelmus de Her-
lesheye uenit ad Hallemot de Satberge.

(470.) Alanus filius Johanrds dispensa-
toris sequitur per breve mortis antecessoris
uersus Eadulfum russel de v acris terre cum
pertinenciis in villa de Witentone. Eadul-
fus uenit et dicit quod Pater dicti Alani
feoffauit eum de ilia terra, quoniam terrain
ilia in dare uel uendere potuit. Et inde
ponunt se ambo super assisam.

Jurata uenit et dicit quod pater predicti
Alani fuit saisitus de predicta terra cum
pertinenciis ut de feodo die quo obiit. Et
ideo adiudicatum est quod dictns Alanus
recuperet saisinam suam, et dictus Eadulfus
in misericordia : condonatur quia pauper.

(471.) Elyanora que fuit uxor Eustachii
de Lange Newetone sequitur per breve suum
uersus Eicardum filium Gregorii de Norton
de dote sua. Eicardus uenit. Et Elianora
quietum clamat dicto Eicardo totum jus
suum pro dimidia marca, et sic concordati
sunt.

(472.) Martinus Gorman sequitur uersus
Ysewdam que fuit uxor Benedicti clerici de
Herterpol per breve suum de Precipe de
medietate cuiusdam mesuagii in Herterpol.
Ysewda uenit et dicit quod non liabet illud
mesuagium nisi de custodia per Willelmum
filium suum, qui infra etatem est, vnde non
potest illud perdere uel lucrare ; et ideo
sine die, et dictus Martinus in misericordia.
Et expectet etatem.

(473.) Bertrenmus filius Laurencii sequi-
tur per breve de rnorte antecessoris uersus
Eeginaldum de Hert, clericum, de uno
mesuagio cum pertinenciis in Herterpol.
Eeginaldus uenit et uocat ad Waranciam
Priorem de Giseburne. Et preceptum est

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quod Prior sumoneatur quod ueniat coram
iusticiariis in crastino sancti Hilarii ad
warantizandum dictum mesuagium dicto
Reginaldo.

(474.) Isti milites elect! sunt ad visum
faciendum de Hugone de Capella, qui se
essoniavit de malo lecti, Videlicet, Adam de
Lummedene, Willelnius de Canne^ Nigellus
de Rungetone, Radulfus de Epplirigdene.
Et si sit malum excusabile, assignabunt
eidem Hugoni diem a die Lune proxima
post octabas sancti Michaelis usque in unum
annum et unum diem proximo sequentem.
Et si sit malum preteriens, dabunt et diem
in quindenam proximo sequente vsque diem
lune proximam post festum Sancti Hillarii.

(475.) Placitum per breve de quo iure
quod est inter Radulfum desuper Teysam
et Johannem de Coyneres ponitur in respectu
ad peticioneni partium usque in quindenam
a die Lune proxima post octabas sancti
Michaelis.

(476.) Placitum per breve de dote quod
est inter Warinurn de Munch enesy et Dyo-
nisam uxorem suam, petentes, et magistrum
Symonem,, Archidiaconum Cantuariensem,
tenentem, ponitur in respectum usque in
crastinumanimarum. crastinum animarum.

(477.) Walterus de Tesedale sequitur
uersus Ricardum de Oxenhale et plesenciam
filiam Willelmi Britonis, quam idem Ri-
cardus uocauit ad warantiam de duabus
Bouatis terre cum pertinenciis in Hurthe-
worthe per breve mortis antecessoris ; omnes
ueniunt et concordat! sunt per licenciam
sub hac forma, videlicet quod idem Wal-
terus relaxauit et de se et de heredibus suis
quietum clamavit totum ius et clamium
quod habuit in predictam terrain dicte Ple-
sencie et Ricardi. Et pro hac relaxacione
et quieta clamacione dederunt dicti Ricardus

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95

et Plesencia dicto Waltero unam ma ream
Cirografum. argenti. Et habent inde Cirografum.

(478.) Plesencia filia Willelmi Britonis
sequitur per breve suum uersus Radulfum
de Mundeuille de homagio suo capiendo de
manerio de Treford cum pertinenciis. Et
prece partium die habent a diem Luue
proxima post octabas sancti Michaelis in
quindenam. quindenam sine assonio comparando, et

responsurus eodem die dicte Plesencie.

Placita Assisarum de Wapentagio Sadbergie Die Sabbati
in crastino animarum, Anno viij°.

(479.) Ricardus Orchembaud et Nicho-
laus socius suus, attornati Warini de Monte
Canesy et Dyonisie uxoris eius, secuntur
per breve suum de dote uersus Magistrum
Symonem de Langeton. Et Magister Symon
interogatus non venit nee pro se misit.
Ideo adiudicatum in respectu vsque diem
lune proximam post festum omnium Sanc-
torum.

Placita Assisarum de Wapentagio Die lune proxima post
Octabas Sancti Michaelis, Anno viij°, Inter Plesenciam filiam
Willelmi Britonis et Radulfum Damundeuille.

(480.) Dicta Plesencia per breve suum
de homagio capiendo sequitur uersus Eadul-
fum Damundeuille. Et Radulfus uenit,
dicens quod non habet diem statutum hac
die lune ad respondendnm coram Jus-
ticiariis, nisi tantumodo ad sequendum
placitum donaini Episcopi. Et Domina
Plesencia dicit quod dies ista statuta fuit
dicte Plesencie ad pro sequendum et dicto
Radult'o ad defendendum sine essouio uel
dilacione, et de hoc ponit se in recordo
Justiciarorum et E-otulorum. Et quia Domi-
nus Senescallus, qui estvniusde Justiciariis

96 ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HENRY in.

non fuit presens ; Rotulus eiusdem record!
sicut ipsa Plesencia dicit.

Placita assisarum de Wapentagio de Sadberge Die lune
proxima post festum omnium Sanctorum, Anno viij°.

(481.) Walterus super Tese, attornatus
Ricardi Supertese per breve suum de quo
Jure sequitur uersus Johannem de Koyners,
Willelmum de Lestre et Aliciam vxorem
eius ; et omnes essoniati sunt et habent
diem vsque in crastinum Sancti Hyllarii.

(482.) Ricardus Orcbembaud et Nicho-
laus socius suus, atornati Warini de Mun-
chenese et Dyonisie vxoris eius, per breve
suum de dote sequuntur uersus Magistrum
Symonem de langetone, proponentes quod
dies statutus fuit eis de eadem loquela in
crastino animarum ; ad quern diem vene-
runt dicti atornati, et dictus Symon non
venit nee per se misit, nee etiam hac ipsa
die lune venit nee pro se misit. Ideo
adiudicatum est quod tercia pars terre de
Sumerhuse capiatur in iiianu episcopi pro
defalta, et quod ballivus de Wapentagio
scire faciat diem capcionis die martis
proxima post festum saiicti Hyllarii, et quod
summoneri faciat dictum Symonem quod
compareat dicto die, responsurus de capitali
placito et de defalta. Eadem dies statuta
est dictis atornatis.

(483.) Plesencia que fuit vxor Thome de
Aslacby per essonium suum sequitur uersus
Radulfum Damundeuille per breve de Ho-
magio capiendo. Et Eadulfus venit et
habet diem vsque in crastinum sancti
Hyllarii. Et venit Walterus de Eggles-
cliue vnacum Roberto de Warrum, essonia-
tores eiusdem Plesencie, et petit quod allo-
catum sit dicte Plesencie hoc quod dictus
Radulfus noluit respondere ei ad prece-
dentem diem quern eis sine essonio fuit
statuta.

ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HENRY III. 97

(484.) Willelmus filius Rogeri de Castro
bernardi per breve suum de morte anteces-
soris sequitur uersus Henricum Gedmoh'.
Et idem Henricus essoniatus est et habet
diem vsque in crastinum sancti Hyllarii.

Placita assisarum de Wapentagio Sadbergie Die lune
proxima post festum Sancti Hyllarii.

(485.) Bertram de Hewrthe sequitur
uersus Michaelem Reginaldum clericum de
Herterpol per breve suum de morte anteces-
soris. Et Eeginaldus venit et sequitur
uersus Michaelem, priorem de Giseburne,
per breve suuin de Warantia. Et idem
Michael Prior venit et facit attornatum
suum de Reginaldo de Herterpol canonico
uel de Willelmo de Polano, Ita quod alter
eorum locum teneat, si alter eorum interesse
non poterit.

(486.) Die martis sequente profert se
Raduifus Damundeuille contra Plesenciam
que fuit vxor Thome de Aslacby. Et Ple-
sencia venit, et per licenciam .Tusticiariorum
concordati sunt, Ita scilicet quod dictus
Raduifus coram Justiciariis recepit homa-
gium dicte Plesencie de manerio de Trefford
cum pertinenciis.

(487.) Thomas Karrov sequitur per
breve suum de precipe uersus Auiciam de
Clare ; et Johannes Burdone et Laurencius
de Lasceles, atornati dicte Amicie essoniati
sunt et habent diem vsque diem lune proxi-
mam post Octabas Pasche. Et tentus est
visus per seruientem et liberos homines.
Et Johannes de Bulemer venit et point
clamum suum in predicta terra.

(488.) Ricardus Erchembaud et Nicho-
laus socius suus, atornati Warini de Monte
Canensi et Dyonisie vxoris eius5 secuntur
per breve suum de dote uersus Symonem de

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miserioordia.

ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HENRY III.

Laiigetone, Archie] iaconum Cantuariensem.
Et ad instanciam domini Eegis et per breve
eiusclem ponitur loquela ista in respectu a
die June in crastino Pasche vsque in vnum
mensem ; et testatum est per Silvestrum,
ballivum de wapentagio, quod tercia pars
manerii de Sumerhuse capta fuit in manu
episcopi die Sabbati proxima ante festum
Sancti Nicholai, et hoc testatum est per
Willelmum de Londoniis, Eicardum de
Oxenhale, Henricum de Greystane et Wil-
lelmum de Stringham.

(489.) "Willelmus filius Eogeri de Castro
Bernardi sequitur per breve suuin de morte
antecessoris uersus Henricum Gedmoh'.
Et Henricus venit, et Jurata venit et dicit
quod Johannes filius Eogeri, frater ipsius
Willelmi, fuit seisitus de sex acris terre
cum pertinenciis in Middelton die qua
habitum religionis suscepit, et quod idem
Willelmus propinquior heres eius est.
Ideo recuperat seisinam, et dictus Henri-
cus in misericordia. Plegius, bernardus de
langeton.

(490.) Bertram filius Laurencii per breve
suum de morte antecessoris sequitur uersus
Eegiiialdum de Hert, clericum. Et Eegi-
naldus de Hert, clericus, venit et sequitur
per breve suum de warantia carte uersus
Michaelem, Priorem de Gisberne. Et Eegi-
iialdus de Herterpol, canonicus de Gyse-
burne, atornatus dicti Prioris, venit ; et

crastinirm. prece partium habent diem vsque in cras-

tinum. Et postea veniunt et concordati
sunt, Ita quod dictus Bertram remisit totum

misericordia dimidia Jus suum dicto Priori et conuentui pro x s.

marca. Et vterque in misericordia — dimidia marca.

(491.) Eadulfus supertese per breve
suum de quo hire sequitur uersus Johannem
de Koyiiers, Willelmum de lestre et Aliciam
vxorem eius de placito pasture. Et Eogerus
de Byssopetre, atornatus Johannis de Koy-

ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HENRY III. 99

tiers, et Willelmus de lestre pro se et pro
Alicia vxore sua veniimt ; et prece partium
ponitur in respectu vsque in crastinum
clausi Pasche.

Placita assisarum de Wapentagio Sadbergie Die lune
proxiina post octabas purificacionis, ,Anno viij.

(492.) Thomas Karrov per breve suum
de precipe sequitur versus Auiciam de Clare
de duabus partibus duarum carucatarum
terre cum pertinenciis., excepta vna bouata
terre in Oueton. Et Auicia venit. Et
dictus Thomas loquitur uersus ipsam
Auiciam per Walterum de Egglescliue,, et
dicit quod ipse Auicia deforciat ei iniuste
duas partes duarum carucatarum terre cum
pertinenciis in Oueton, excepta vna bouata
terre, quas clamat pertinere ad liberum
tenementum suum quod tenet de Episcopo
in capite in Setone. Et ideo iniuste, quia
Robertus Karrov de eadem terra fuit seisi-
tus teinpore Henrici Keg-is, aui Regis Hen-
rici aui Henrici Regis qui nunc est, et
expleta inde recepta de blado et pratis ad
valenciam xx s. tempore pacis. Et de ipso
Roberto descendit Jus ipsius terre Petro
filio suo et heredi, et de ipso Petro Waltero
filio suo et heredi ; et de ipso Waltero
descendit ius eiusdem terre isti Thome
Karrov petenti, filio et heredi ipsius Walter! ;
et hoc offert ad disracionandum . Contra per
Willelmum Kerre, qui respondet pro ipsa
Auicia et petit a dicto Thoma vtrum ....
hoc quod Waterus pro eo iiarrauit annon ;
et Thomas dicit quod bene waraiitizat
narracionem dicti Walteri. Et dictus Wil-
lelmus pro predicta Auicia petit Judicium
si debeat respondere .... non nominauit
annum neque diem quo dictus Henricus rex
auus aui istius Henrici Regis fuit viuus et
mortuus. Et predictus Walterus pro pre-
dicto Thoma dicit quod ad hue est in eodem
loco quo prius fuerat, et adiecit annum et

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100 ASSIZE BOLL 224, 53 HENRY III.

diem; et dicit quod sufficit in narracioni
sue hoc quod nominauit tempore pacis, eo
quod tempus pacis non fuit temporibus suis
nisi in vltimo anno suo. Contra per ipsum
Willelmum, qui dicit quod, licet sit in eodem
loco quo prius fuit, nichil ad narracionem
potest aumentare, quia cum interogatum
fuerat a Thoma Karrov vtrum narracionem
suam warantizat annon, et . . . . Thomas
sine aliqua aumentatione ipsam warantiani
non potest nee debet, ut videtur, ei post-
modum aumentare. Ynde Judicium ponitur
in respectu, quia non sunt nisi duo Justiciarii
presentes, vsque diem lune proxima post
octabas Sancti Mathie apostoli. Et dicta
Auicia dicit quod personaliter uult prosequi
loquelam istam decetero, et petit quod
atornati sui deleantur ; et concessum est ei.

(493.) Walterus de Hadham et Hauisia
vxor eius, Ricardus de Yelande :et Matylda
vxor eius secuntur per breve suum uersus
Auiciam de Clare, conquerentes quod ipsa
Auicia deforciat eis duas partes duarum
carucatarum terre cum pertinenciis, excepta
vna bouata terre, que eos contingunt de
hereditate que fuit Thome de Wiltone in
Oueton, cuius heredes sunt predicte Hauisia
et Matylda: qui nuper [o]biit, vt dicitur.
Dicta Auicia venit, et habent diem ad diem
lune proximam post Octabas Sancti Mathie
apostoli.

Placita Assisarum Dunelmi Die Lune proxima post
Octabas Sancti Mathie Apostoli, Anno viij.

(494.) Thomas Karrov sequitur per breve
suum uersus Auiciam de Clare. Et ipsa
Auicia essoniata est, et habent diem vsque
in crastinum clausi Pasche.

(495.) Walterus de Hadham pro se et
Hauisia vxor eius, Kicardus de Yelande
pro se et pro Matylda vxore sua, secuntur

ROLL 224, 58 HENRY III. 101

uersus Auiciam de Clare. Et ipsa Auicia
essoniata est et habet diem sicut prius.

(496.) Memorandum de loquela inter
Ricardum Supertese et Johannem de
Koyners.

Placita de Assisis die Lune proxima post clausum Pasche,
Anno viij°.

(497.) Thomas Karrov sequitur uersus
Auiciam de Clare, petens recordum suum
et Judicium audiendum. Et ipsa Auicia
venit et petit recordum suum et Judicium
audiendum; et cum petitum sit a dicta
Auicia si uelit lucrare et perdere per re-
sponsum predictum, consulta super hoc uenit
et petit adhuc uisuin terre, quia uisus inde
factus minus sufficiens fuit. Ideo habent
die in visus die Mercurii proxima ante festum
Sancti Greorgii et diem placiti usque in tres
septimanas ; et sunt tales ueatores nominati :
Willelmus de Hessewelle, Henricus Spring,
Eadulfus de Holinside, Walterus super
tejsaui, Rolandus barde, Rogerus de gar-
mandeway, Robertus de Aslakeby, Walterus
films Abel, Reginaldus clericus, Galfridus
filius Nigelli, Stephanus de Gartone,
Robertus de Daltone ; et dicta Auicia facit
attornatum suum in tergo rotuli de essoniis,
et Thomas Karrov similiter.

(498.) Loquela inter Walterum de Had-
ham et Hauisiam vxorem eius, Ricardum
de Yelande et Matildam vxorem suam,
petentes, et Auiciam de Clare, tenentein,
tenetur in respectu.

(499.) Walterus Surteys, attornatus
Radulfi Surteys, sequitur uersus Johannem
de Coyners per breve suuin de quo iure de
mora de Ditensale. Et J. Gyllet, clericus,
atornatus dicti Johannis, venit, et concor-

102 ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HENRY in.

dati sunt per licenciam in hac forma.
Videlicet quod idem Johannes recognovit
dictam moram esse ins et clamium ipsius
Radulti. Et dictus Radulfus dimisit et
concessit eidem Johanni et heredibus suis
et hominibus suis de Sockeburne inper-
petuuin communam pasturam eiusdem more
de Ditonsale ab ingressu more per viam de
Sockeburne vsque ad moiitem qui vocatur
Stay nhov. Et ipsam pasturam dicto Johanni
et heredibus suis et hominibus suis de
Cyrografum. Sockeburne contra oinnes homines ipse

Radulfus et heredes sui inperpetuum
warantizabunt contra oinnes alias villatas
vicinas, Ita quod predicta mora communus
remanebit Inter villam de Ditonsale et
Sockeburne. Et pro hac recognicione et
concessione remisit dictus Johannes dicto
Radulfo et heredibus suis inperpetuum
totum Jus et clamum quod habauit in
quadam cultura quam Galfridus de Koyners,
pater ipsius Johannis, emit de Ricardo
Surteyse, fratre dicti Radulfi, Exceptis
septem acris de eadem cultura per perticam
xx pedum, que inperpetuum rernanebunt in
dominico dicto Johanni et heredibus suis,
propinquiores terre ipsius Johannis de
Sockeburne. Et predictus Radulfus et
heredes sui ipsas septem acras terre pre-
dicto Johanni et heredibus suis inperpetuum
warantizabunt.

Placita Assisarum Wapenthagii de Sadberghe coram
eisdem Justiciariis, Anno viij°.

(500.) Ricardus Erchembaud^ attornatus
Warini de Munchenese et Dionisie vxoris
sue, profert se contra Magistrum Simoiiem,
Archidiaconum Cantuariensem. Et ad In-
stanciam domini Regis et mandatum dicti
Warini habent diem in eodem statu quo
nuiic est a die Sancti Johannis Babtiste in
tres septimanas.

ASSIZE ROLL 224, 58 HENRY III. 103

(501 .) Wido de Hotone, atornatus Thome
Karrov, profert se uersus Aviciam de Clare,
et prece ems et amicorum dicte Avicie,
ponitur in respectu vsque in vnum mensem.
Et Willelmus de Hesse welle, Eicardus de
Ho llinside,, Eeginaldus clericus, Galfridus
films Nigelli, Walterus filius Abelle, Eou-
landus baard, veatores, et testantur visum
sicut facta fuit Die Mercurii proxima ante
festum Sancti Georgii apud Ouetone.

Placita Assisarum Sadbergie Die Lune in crastino Sancte
Trinitatis,

(502.) Thomas Karrov sequitur per breve

suum uersus Auiciam de Clare. Et Jordaiius

Janitor, atornatus dicte Auicie,, profert se.

Et Thomas Karrov per Walterum de Eggles-

cliue loquitur uersus ipsam Aviciam, dicens

quod ipsa deforciat ei iniuste duas partes

duarum carucatarum terre cum pertinenciis

in Oueton, excepta vna bouata terre, quas

clamat pertinere ad liberum tenementum

suum quod tenet in capite de domino Epis-

copo in Setone. Et ideo iniuste quod

Eobertus Karrov de eadern terra fuit vestitus

et seisitus ut de feodo et de iure tempore

pacis anno et die quo Henricus Eex, auus

Henrici Eegis aui istius Henrici Eegis qui

nunc est, fuit viuus et mortuus, et expleta

inde recepta ad valeiiciam xx s. Et de ipso

Eoberto descendit ius eiusdem terre Petro

filio suo et heredi. Et de ipso Petro Wal-

tero filio suo ; et de ipso Waltero descendit

ius eiusdem terre isti Thome petenti, filio

et heredi. Et si tale fuerit quod hoc con-

tradicere uoluerit, habet inde sufficientem

disracionem. Contra per W. Heyrun^ qui

pro Jordano Janitore, atornato dicte Auicie,

respondet et defendit ius dicti Thome in

ipsa terra, et dicit quod adhuc petit

Judicium de hoc quod prius narrauerat

sicut die lune proxima post Octabas purifi-

cacionis, ad quern diem narrando non nomi-

104 ASSIZE ROLL 224, 53 HEN&T in.

nauit annum neque diem quo Henricus rex,
auus aui istius Regis, fuit viuus et mortuus,
et adhuc inde petit Judicium. Contra pro
parte aduersa, qui dicit quod cum petitum
esset a dicta Avicia die lune proxima post
clausum Pasche si vellet per ipsum respon-
sum lucrare uel perdere, Ipsa super hoc
consulta alterum intrauit responsum et
petiebat visum terre, asserens quod visus
inde factus minus sumciens erat ; et post-
modum facta fuit visus de eadem terra per
liberos prescriptos. Ad hoc replicat dictus
W. Heyrun, dicens quod licet inde visum
petiebat, adiecit, ut dicit, quod excepcio
prius proposita de anno et die ei saluaretur;
et Walterus dicit quod excepcionem pre-
dictam omnino reliquid et precise capitali
placito respondit, quando vltimo petiit visum
terre. Recordum et Judicium de hoc pro
absencia sua ponitur in respectu vsque
in Vigiliam Nativitatis sancti Johannis
Baptiste.

Placita assisarum Die Lune In crastino Apostolorum
Petri et Pauli, Anno viij.

(503.) Ricardus Treboub5, atornatus
Warini de Monchenese et Dyonisie vxoris
sue non venit nee per se mittit, nee secitur
uersus Magistrum Simonem de Langeton,
nee idem Simon venit. Ideo omnes in
misericordia. misericordia super Episcopum.

(504.) Thomas Karrov per breve suum
de precipe sequitur uersus Aviciam de Clare,
et Jordanus Janitor, atornatus dicte Auicie,
venit. Et Nigellus de Rungeton pro Thoma
Karrov loquitur uersus dictum Jordanum,
dicens quod deforciat dicto Thome duas
partes manerii de Oueton, excepta vna
bouata ; et dictus Jordanus venit et recog-
nouit dictam terram cum pertinenciis esse
Jus et clainiuin dicti Thome et earn ei red-
didit coram Justiciariis. Ideo dictus Thomas

ASSIZE ROLL 224, 5S HENRY 111. 105

recuperat seisinam suam, et dictus Jor-
dan us in misericordia. Plegius, Nigellus
de Rungeton.

[m. 4 dors.] placita assisarum apud ....

Notanda.

[In later hand.] Pulcherrimus processus
justiciariorum itinerantium tempore ....
qui optime probat libertates . ... et ....
tinam Episcopi in Waperitachio Sadbergie
.... Wapentac' fuit .... Episcopo.

[In much later hand.] hie infra aliquid
tangen' .... cum diuersis .... concord', etc.
Manerium de Marham, etc.
Saddebergh, etc.
Foresta de Myddeltone, etc.
libertates burgi de Hertelpole, etc.

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

( 109 )

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

COUNTY OE DURHAM.

CHILTON.f

Grant by Walter HerouriJ to Sir Walter de Insula, his
nephew (nepoti), of pasture for four big beasts, either oxen
or cows, in the several pasture§ of Sir Odenel Heroun and
lady Mary Heroun in Chilton, which pasture Sir Odenel and
lady Mary had granted to Walter Heroun over and above
sixteen oxen which he had in the same several pasture.
Witnesses : John lord of Little Chilton, Bernard de Thur-
stanton, John de Shotton, William de Wyndelisdon, Philip
de Bradberie, Andrew de Ferie, Peter de Ferie clerk, Thomas
son of John de Bradberie. (No. 20.)

DURHAM.

Eve of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, 3 Edward
(Aug. 28, 1309). Acknowledgment by Guychaid de Charron,
junior, sheriff of Northumberland, || of the receipt by the
hands of John, son of John de Dunolmo, of a royal writ

* Court of Wards and Liveries. Deeds. Box 40. The Editor is indebted
to Mr. H. H. E. Craster, F.S.A., for drawing his attention to these deeds.
Documents relating to the county of Durham are seldom met with in the
Eecord Office.

f In the parish of Ferryhill. See Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis
(Surtees Society, Iviii), p. 168.

% From the pedigree of Heron of Chipchase (New History of Northumber-
land, iv, 340), it appears that Walter Heron, youngest son of Sir William
Heron of Ford, living 1360, married Cecily, daughter of John de Insula, and
heiress of Sir Robert de Insula of Chipchase, Sept., 1348.

§ Ad quatuor grossa animalia de genere bourn seu vaccarum in tota separali
pastura.

|| Guychard de Charron was Sheriff of Northumberland 2 Edward II. and
the first quarter of the year following, when William de Casteltone acted as
his attorney.

HO NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

addressed to himself, dated at Westminster, June 28, 2
Edward (1309), and tested by R. le Brabazoun, commanding
him to summon twenty-four knights and other free and
lawful men of the neighbourhood (visneto) of Durham,
Neuton and Herington,* to ascertain whether Anthony,
bishop of Durham, t by Richard de Stanlawe and his other
ministers, 011 Tuesday after the feast of the Epiphany in
the king's first year (Jan. 9, 1307-8), seised without reason-
able cause 40 Li. worth of land, belonging to John, son of
John de Dunolmo, in Durham, Neuton and Heringtoii, and
also goods and chattels to the value of 200 li. ; or whether
John was bound to the bishop in 300 li. and upwards from
the time he was bailiff and farmer of the vill of Durham.
(No. 22.)

Ceste endenture, faite parentre William de Dalden dune
part et Richard de BernardcastielP clerk' dautre part, tes-
moigne come Je dit William eit done et grante au dit
Richard, ses heirs et a ses assignes, le manoir de RilleyJ et
dys acres de terre en Aldyngrigge one les appurtenances, a
auoir et tenir al terme de vint aun}, queux manoir et
terre le dit William auoit en eschaunge de monsire Thomas
de Gray pur certeins terres et tenement} en Norham shire,
et sur ce le dit William eit grauiite et releisse au dit Richard,
ses heirs et a ses assignes, tout le droit qil auoit ou auoir
pourroit en les manoir et terre auantdit} oue clause de
garantie ; le dit Richard voet et graunt qe, sil ses heirs ou
ses assignes soient emplede} del auantdit manoir ou terre,
et vochent a garant le dit William et ses heirs, et le dit
William et ses heirs entront en la garantie, et vochent outre
par cause del eschaunge le dit monsire Thomas et ses heirs
selonc ley de terre, et les dit} manoir et terre ou nulle part
de ycelles soient recouerys del dit Richard, ses heirs ou de
ses assignes, qe nulles autres terres ou tenement} le dit Wil-
liam ne serront charges par cause de la garantie auantdite,
mais tant seulement les terres et tenement} queux fourront
doriez en eschaunge pur le manoir et terre auantdit}, si qe
le dit Richard, ses heirs ou ses assignes, eient a la value de
mesmes les terres et tenement} en Norham shire pur la terre

* Herringtou, in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring, between Durham and
Sunderland.

t Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, 1283—1311.

£ Billey or Relley in the Vetus Burgus of Durham, that is the present
constablery of Crossgate, namely, that part of Durham, on the north side of
the river Wear, which is separated from the Bishop's suburb or estate of Fram-
wellgate by the rivulet called Milburne (Feodarium, pp. 191, 324). Aldin
Grange is in the parish of St. Oswald, Durham.

NORTH OOTJNTRY DEEDS. Ill

recouery. En tesmoignance de quelle chose ces parties de
ceste endenture, les auantditz William et Richard, entre-
chaungeablement ouiit mys lour sealx. Escript a Duresme
le Lundy proscheyn deuant le Noiel (Dec. 22), Ian de grace
mille ccclxv. (No. 12.)*

Grantf by Ranulph de Brimton to Gilbert, the butcher
(carnifci) of Durham, son of Humphrey (Umfridi), of his
lands in Suterpethe, ;{; once belonging to Geoffrey de Jarum,
the grantor's grandfather, lying between the land of Gil-
bert, the tailor (parmentarii), and the land of Richard
Pigun, at a yearly rent of half a mark of silver, payable
half-yearly at Whitsuntide and Martinmas. Witnesses :
Sir William de Midilton, seneschal of Durham, Master
Richard de Bereville, sheriff of Durham, John Tywe, Regi-
nald the chapman (mercatore), Thomas son of Lewin, Wil-
liam Arthur, William the dyer (tinctore), Gilbert the Tailor
(parmentario), Walter Burges, Hugh Lumbar d. Dorso :
Carta Ranulphi de Brunton' de terra in Suterpethe. (No.
40.) §

WEST GRINDON.U

Grant by John, son of Gilbert de Grendon, to Stephen
Burdon, son of the late Sir Hugh Burdon, knt., of six acres
of arable land in the common field (cam.po) and territory of
Vest Grendon, lying at Sedyflat and Bisoutyestret. To be
held of the chief lords of the vill. Witnesses : Hugh
Burdon, lord of Grendon, John de Her!, lord of Heworht,
Richard Chaunceler, Gilbert de Turribus, William de Mor-
don junior. (No. 13.)

HEALEYFIELD.f

Grant in special tail by John de Chilton, lord of Heley,
to Hugh de Yvedall and Engelisse, his wife,** of a messuage
and croft and six acres of land, which Robert the shepherd

* Seal: red wax, circular. Virgin and child in a canopied compartment,
shield below, small, blurred s : RICI : DE : CASTRO BERNARDI.

f This deed was executed before the passing of the Statute " Quia Emptores,"
18 Edward I.

| Suterpethe is now the approach to the Elvet Bridge on the Market Place
side.-K.E.B.

§ Seal : dark wax, vesica shaped. A bird on a spray. S'RANVLFI DE
BRVNT'.

|| In the parish of Aycliffe, three miles east of the village.

•j[ North-west of Rowley Station.

** Query the same person as Engelyas, relict of Hugh de Mouhaut,
mentioned below.

112 WORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

(bercarius) had once held at farm in the vill of Heley, at a
yearly rent of 3s., and by doing forinsic service. Witnesses :
Hugh de Scouland, William de Cnynhley,* William de Ruley,
William de Hesseuuelle, John de Buttelesfeld. (No. 37.)

MORTON TINMOUTH.f

Friday, the eve of St. James the Apostle (July 24), 1355.
Grant by Peter, son of John de Morton, to Eobert de Bowes
of a messuage and six acres of land and meadow in Morton
Tynnemuth. Witnesses : William de Graystanes, Thomas
de Morton, Walter de Denton, John de Pyburn, Adam de
Neusom, Thomas Warde, John de Elvet. Morton Tynne-
muth. Dorso : Morton, Morton Tynnemouth. (No. 3.)

TANFIELD AND CROOK.

Sciant omnes tarn presentes quam futuri quod ego,
Matheus de Lumpleya, concessi et quietum clamaui Philippo
de Leya et heredibus suis totum ius et clamium meum, quod
habui et habere potui in villa de Thamfeld et de Croch jure
hereditario ex parte Roberti filii Alwini, aui rnei, cum
omnibus pertinentiis suis, in curia domini Rieardi, Dvnnel-
inensis episcopi,J pro octo marcis argenti quas inichi dedit et
octo bouatis terre et duobus toftis in villa de Croch pro
homagio et seruicio meo, sicut carta ipsius Philippi testatur.
Et sciendum est quod ego Matheus de Lumpleya et heredes
mei warantizabimus predicto Philippo de Leya et heredibus
suis totam prefatam terrain de Thampheld et de Crohc cum
omnibus pertinentiis suis contra omnes homines et feminas
qui de stirpe Roberti filii Ailwini, aui mei, exierunt vel exire
poterunt. Et ut hec carta [rata et] stabilis permaneat et
imperpetuum habeatur, huic carte sigillum meum apposui.
Hiis testibus, domino Ada de . . . . d, tune senescallo, domino
Rogero Daudri, domino [Jordjano Hairun, domino Roberto
filio Thome, domino Galfrido filio Galfridi, domino Simone
de Bruntoft, domino Willelmo de Latona, domino Henrico
de Folkenfcon, domino Waltero de Monasteriis, domino
Roberto de Monasteriis, domino Radulfo de Applingdene,

* Intended for Cnihley, now Knitsley, not far from Healeyfield. This
deed has been printed in the Feodarium, p. 73 n. The copy in the Record
Office is very difficult to read.

f In the parish of Gainford, four miles north-east of the village.

j Either Richard de Marisco, 1217—1226, or Richard Poor 1228—1237,
probably the latter,

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS. 113

domino Reginaldo Basseth, et multis aliis, Dor so: Concordia
.... Math' de lu . . . . de Tamfeld et Croke. (No. 4.)*

UNTHANK.f

Grant by John, son of Walter de Esche to Roger de
Esche, tailor (cissor), his brother, of a toft and three acres
of land which Peter Spinster had once held in the vill and
territory of Unthaiike, which toft lay between the tofts of
Thomas son of Abraham and William de Humaze, and
which three acres of land were contained in length from the
high street (alia strata] to the water of Dyuernes,J and of
eleven acres of land which Adam de Hareholme had once
held in the territory of Unthaoke, on the west side, between
the land of Thomas son of Abraham and Neuuayburn, and
extended in length from the king's street (regia strata) to
the water of Dyuernes, in return for a sum of money paid
beforehand. To be held of the chief lords of the fee as
freely as any other land in the fee of Brandon, paying yearly
to the chief lord of the fee a grain of pepper (granum piperis)
at Christmas, if demanded, at the door (ostium) of the church
of St. Cuthbert in Durham. Witnesses: Sir Hugh Burdon,
Roger de Esche, Elyas de Langley, Simon de Unthanke,
John Stil, Walter de Brome, Thomas,, son of William, son
of Hugh, Thomas Abraham, Hugh the clerk. Dorso :
Trolesden.§ (No. 7.)||

Saturday before St. Peter in cathedra (Jan. 11), 1314-5.
Grant in special tail by Henry Porter of Aukeland to Adam
Bee of Durham, and Elizabet his wife, of a messuage called
Northous in Unthank, and of sixty acres of land with
meadow and wood in Unthank and Est Brandon. Remainder
to Adam's right heirs. Witnesses: Hugh de Burdon, Hugh
de Schouland, John Raiidulff, William de Langeley, William
de Auford, John Skot. Le Northouses in Unthank. (No.
38.)

* Seal : green wax, circular. A figure in a long dress riding to the dexter
with a bird in his left hand to which he looks back : + SIGILL' MATTHIE
DE LVMELEHE. A drawing of this seal is given in the Priory of Finchale, p. 77.

t Unthank, on the Derwent, south of Ushaw, three miles west of Durham.

J Now called the Deerness.

§ Now Tursdale.

|| Seal : dark wax, circular. A flower ; s' IONANNIS DE ESCHE.

I

114 NORTH COUNTBY DEEPS,

NORTHUMBERLAND.

ANCROFT.*

Grant in special tail by John de la Ley, in exchange for
land called Gilians, to Adam son of Matthew and Alice his
wife, of a toft and croft and four acres of land in the vill of
Anecroft ; namely the toft and croft once held by Ralf
Fraward, and one acre of which lay in le Crofth', and one
acre in le Socroch', and 1^ acres on (super) Berrig',t and
half an acre at Croftheuid, together with all the meadow
in Kirkeleth, at a yearly rent of a pair of white gloves
or a penny at Whit Sunday. Witnesses : Sir Philip de
Colville, Henry de Berrigdon, Peter de Hord,;}; Nicholas
de Hord, William de Scremerston, Robert de Gosewyke,
Nicholas de Allerdene. (No. 21.)§

BUDLE AND SPINDLESTONE.H

Octave of Hilary, 39 Edward III. (Jan. 20, 1365-6), and
afterwards Trinity Term, 40 Edward III. (1366), West-
minster. Fine between Robert de Lambeton and Wil-
liam de Soureby of Moreton, plaintiffs, and William de
Dalden and Elen, his wife, deforciants, about a moiety of
the manors of Butell and Spyndilstane. Settled on Dalden
and his wife for their lives ; remainder in tail male to
Jurdan, their son : remainder in tail male to the heirs of
the body of William and Elen ; remainder in fee simple to
the right heirs of William. (No. 17.)

Henricus, comes Northumbrie,! domiiius honorum Cokir-
mouth et Petworth, gardianus Est et Middel Marchiarum

* Ancroft, on the road from Berwick to Wooler, is a chapelry in the parish
of Holy Island, formerly in North Durham.

t Perhaps Berrington in the adjacent chapelry of Kyloe.

£ Ord, near Tvveedmouth.

§ Seal : circular, yellow wax, much rubbed. Shield, with a fess.

|| Budle and Spindleston are in the parish of Bamburgh. The Daldens
inherited their moiety from the family of de la Ley, and from them it passed to
the Bowes. The other moiety belonged to the Colvilles, and passed from them
to the Mauleverers. See the New History of Northumberland, i, ]77.

^[ Henry Percy, created Earl of Northumberland, March 25, 1470 ; mur*
dered April 28, 1489.

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS. 115

Anglie versus Scociam, ac justiciarius omnium forestarum
Anglie vltra Trentam, omnibus ad quos presens scriptum
peruenerit salutem. Sciatis me prefatum comitem die con-
feccionis presencium recepisse homagium Eadulphi Bowes
de Daldeii' infra episcopatum Dunelmensem armigerum de
omnibus terris et tenementis in dominiis meis de Buddill'
et Spyndelstan in comitatu Northumbrie que de me tenet.
In cuius rei testimonium presentibus sigillum meum apposui.
Dat. in villa de Duresme, decimo die mensis Marcii, anno
regni regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum Anglie quarto
decimo (1473-4). W. Newton. Dorso : Humage inayd to
my lord off Northumberland. (No. 29.)*

COASTLEY.f

Tuesday in Whit week, 8 Edward III. (May 17, 1334).
Grant by John de Cosley to Sir Hugh de Swinburne, chap-
lain, of his manor of Cosley with the mill of the same,
together with all the suit of multure of all the tenants of
the lands and tenements in any way belonging to the said
mill; and of the multure to the thirteenth measure (vas)
of all corn growing on his lands and tenements of Hac-
fordh' and Langhope. Power to distrain on the lands and
tenements if the multure were withdrawn by the tenants.
Witnesses : Richard de Acum, bailiff of Hextildesham, Hugh
de Erington, Eichard de Vallibus, Eichard de Falufeld, John
clerk of Havden, Adam Serjant, William de Hamsterley.
Cosley. (No. 26.)}

ESLINGTON.§

Grant by Yvo de Alnham to John de Eslmgtoii|| of the
land called Three roods (tres rode) between le Langeflat and
Hopeburne, in exchange for the land before Yvo's capital
messuage in the vill of Eslington, namely from the ditch
(fossa)., which Henry the cowherd (vaccarius) had once held,

* Seal : red wax, surrounded by a plaited rush; a lion passant to the dexter
face fronting the spectator; motto above, "per nous."

t Coastley, Hexham West Quarter, four miles north-west of Hexham. See
the New History of Northumberland, iv, 8 — 11.

t Seal : heraldic, much rubbed, apparently a chief

§ On the Aln, west of Whittingham Station. See Archceologia Mliana,
3rd Series, vi, 1, where there is a pedigree of Eslington of Eslington.

|| In the MS. the name looks like Ellington, a place in the parish of Wood-
ham, but the names of the persons mentioned in the charter — Alnham, Callaley,
Glantori, Eeaveley, Prendwick and Eyle — all from places in the vicinity of
Eslington, shew that this must be the place intended.

i 2

116 NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

to the ditch of the willow (fossam salicis) towards the north
as Yvo's ditch enclosed it (sicut fossa mea circumcludit) .
Witnesses : John son of Waldeve, William de Kaluley,
Eobert de Glontedon, William Wallace (Wallensi}, Walter
de Prendeuic, John son of Patrick,, Gilbert de Rihil, Utred
de Eslingtoii, Gilbert de Glontedon, John de Reveley, Hugh
de Prendeuic clerk, Henry de Eihil. (No. 43.)

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego, Johannes de
Eslingtone, miles, dedi, concessi et hac presenti carta mea
confirmaui Roberto, filio meo et heredi, et Oistiane, filie
domini Willelmi Ridel, et eorum heredibus, in libero
maritagio, centum solidatus annue redditus in villa de
Eslingtone, scilicet, in duabus partibus molendini eiusdem
ville, cum tota sequela et multura, ad dictas duas partes
eiusdem molendini pertinentibus, et que de iure possunt
pertinere, adeo libere, quiete et pacifice, sicut ego Johannes
dictas duas partes molendini tenui vel tenere potui ; et due
marce et dimidia in certo bondagio in eadem villa ad hoc
assignato, scilicet, de firma terre Willelmi Molendinarii
capiendi decem solidi, et de firma terre Ade Hers septem
solidi, de firma terre Elie filii fabri octo solidi, de firma terre
Radulfi Keng [sic] quatuor solidi et quatuor denarii, et de
firma Willelmi King quatuor solidi ; et si ita contingat quod
predictus redditus in dictis duabus partibus molendini uel in
bondagiis prenominatis deficit, ego, predictus Johannes, me
oblige predictum redditum sine aliqua contradiccione sus-
tinend'. Tenend' et habend' predictis Roberto et Cristiane,
et heredibus de corporibus predicti Roberti et Cristiane pro-
uenientibus, libere, quiete, in liberum maritagium. Et si
predictus Robertus, quod absit, in fata discedat, volo et
concedo pro me et heredibus meis quod dicta Cristiana
habeat et teneat predictum annue \_sic~] reditum [sic] in tota
vita sua. Et si ita contingat quod predicta Cristiana absque
prole sui corporis discedat et de corpore predicti Roberti,
volo ut predictum redditum michi et heredibus meis totaliter
redeat et revertat. Et ego predictiis Johannes et heredes
mei predictos centum solitatus [sic] annue redditus predictis
Roberto et Cristiane, sicut predictum est, contra omnes
mortales warantizabimus, adquietabimus et defendemus.
In cuius rei testimonium et ad maiorem eius securitatem
presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus :
domino Dauid de Coupland, domino Willelmo Herun, domino
Roberto de Maneriis, domino Roberto de Glonton', Johanni
[sic] de Bromtone; Hugone de Haysende, et aliis. (No. 35.)

COtTNTRY DEEDS. 117

FELKINGTON.*

Release by Adam de Prendergest to his lord, William de
Coleville, of half a carucate of land in the vill of Felkingdon,
which the grantor had had of the grant of Wymarcus
Papedy, and had held of the grantee. Witnesses: Sir Eobert
de Clifforde, Sir William de Scremereston, Sir Robert Ridel,
John de Hagardeston, Henry de Beringdon, Hugh de
Grendon, Henry Godefr', Richard de Donelmo, Alexander
Port', Adam son of Hugh,, Eustace Manin, William junior
of Scremereston, Henry de Chesewic. (No. 9.)f

Sunday before the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June
19), 1306. Grant by Engelyas, relict of Hugh de Mouhaut,
to Goderic de Neusum and Isabel, his wife, and John, their
son, of the messuages which Henry le Inglys had held at farm
of the grantor, and of a toft which Adam Ack' had held of her,
together all the lands and tenements the grantor had had in
the vill and territory of Felkiadon of the grant of Margaret,
her mother. To hold to the grantees and the heirs of the
body of the survivors,^ at a yearly rent for three years of
five marks of silver, for the support of a chaplain celebrating
divine service for the souls of Adam de Mouhaut, the
grantor, herself, and all her ancestors. Remainder in
default of heirs to Alice, the grantor's daughter. Witnesses :
Sir Philip de la Leye, Sir Thomas de Quyteworth, Hugh de
Schouland, John de Birteleye junior, William de Kirkenny,
Adam de Holmeset, John de Queteley, Richard [de] Pykering,
John de Edemanleye, John, son of John Bille, Philip de
Hagarston, Richard de Chesewyke. Husetre. (No. 23. )§

Saturday after St. Gregory the pope (March 13), 1349-50.
Grant in tail by Godric de Neusom to Alan, his son, of all
his lands and tenements in the vill and territory of
Felkingfcon, which Nicholas le Megre had held for the term
of the life of Godric his son. Witnesses : Robert de Bowes,
John, lord of Egliston, Alan de Menelle, John de Pyburne,
John de Raby clerk. Neusom. (No. 34.)

* Felkington, in the cliapelry of Duddo, and parish of Holy Island, formerly
part of North Durham, six miles south-west of Berwick. See paper on the
Border family of Papedy of Ancroft, Dunglas, Manderston and Berwickshire,
in the Berwickshire Hist, and Nat. Club, viii, 480.

t Seal: an animal, perhaps a lion, passant to the sinister. SIGILL' ADE
FIL' HENRICI.

| Tenend. et habend. predictis Godrico et Isabelle et Johanni, et heredibua
eorum qui diucius superiuxerit de corpore exeuntibus.

$ Seal: white wax, vesica shaped. Floral device : SIGILLVM IOHANNE.

118 NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

Fine levied in the bishop of Durham's court at Norham
on Thursday after the octave of Easter, 33 Edward III., and
14 bishop Thomas* (May 2, 1359), before Thomas Gray,
Robert de Tughall, William de Heppiscotes and Gilbert de
Ellewyke, justices, between Thomas de Swayniston, plaintiff,
and William de Dalden and Alina his wife, deforciants,
about a moiety of the manor of Felkyngton and Allirdenf
in Norhamschyre. Eight of the plaintiff. Warranty by
William and Alma and her heirs. (No. 45.)

HUMBLETON4

Saturday after the Epiphany (Jan. 11), 1331-2. Eelease
by Juliana, who had been wife of John, son of John de la
Legh, to Robert de la Legh, of all right of action for dower
by reason of lands and tenements which had belonged to her
husband in the county of Northumberland or the kingdom
of Scotland, except the third part of the manor of Homil-
don, which Robert held of her demise. Witnesses : Robert
de Lambton, Symon de Essh, Walter de Ludeworth, Wil-
liam de Silkesworth, Thomas du Boys, John du Boys. Hom-
ildon. (No. 32.)

NE WCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

Saturday in the second week of Easter (April 30), 1362.
Grant by Laurence de Akton to Gocelin Surteys of a yearly
rent of two marks from the grantor's lands and tenements
in the vill of Newcastle-on-Tyne, payable half-yearly at
Whitsuntide and Martinmas. Power of distraint if the
rent was in arrear. Witnesses : John del Chambre, mayor,
Elias de Tirquyt,§ John de Stanope, John de Embildon, and
John de Refham,§ bailiffs. Newcastle-on-Tyne. (No. 6.) ||

SHARPERTON.^f

Wednesday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
(Sept. 15), 1361. Grant by John Heron, knt., to Nicholas,

* Thomas de Hatfield, 1345—1381.
t Allerdeau, four miles east of Norham.

J In the chapelry of Doddington and parish of Chatton, west of Wooler.
§ Mr. Welford, in his History of Newcastle and Gateshead (i., 161), makes
these names Frewhitt or Airwhitt and Ruff an.

|| Seal : red wax, circular. A lion passant to the sinister. SIGILLVM
. . . . s.
^[ In Alwintou parish, six miles west of Eothbury.

COUNTRY DEEDS. 119

his son, of two messuages and of two husbandry lands
(terras husband') in the vill of Sharperton, one of which was
held by Adam Smyth and the other by John Tomesson and
Eobert Taylour, paying the grantor during his life a yearly
rent of 26s. Sd. Witnesses : Eobert de Umf raville, William
de Lilleburne, Roger Heron, knts., Eichard de Horselay,
Henry Tayleboyse, Hugh Galoun, Eichard del Parke.
Sharperton. Dorso : Carta de Sharperley (sic). (No. 24.)*

Same day. Grant in special tail by John Heron, knt.,
to Nicholas, his son and his heirs by Isabel, daughter of
Edmund (Ed'i) de Esshet',t his wife, of two messuages and
husbandry lands in Sharperton, held by John Gilleson and
Matthew de Brampton ; and of twelve acres of land of
demesne in the same vill, held by John Thomesson. To be
held by the service of a rose, payable on St. John the Bap-
tist's day. Witnesses as in the last deed. Sharperton.
(No. 16.)

SCEEMEESTON.J

Dec. 10, 1470. Grant by Henry Swynhowe, esq.,§ to
Thomas Farehayr of a yearly rent of ten marks from the
grantor's manor and vill of Skrymerston, payable on Whit-
Suiiday and Martinmas. Power to distrain if the rent was
a quarter in arrear. At the sealing Henry paid Thomas 4>d.
in the name of possession and seisin of the said rent of ten
marks, in part payment of the rent of the Whit-Sunday
term next coming. Skrymerston. (No. 39.)

SWINHOE AND BEADNELL.||

Nov. 12, 9 Edward IV. (1469). Grant by Eichard
Davyson and Thomas Hudson, chaplains, and Eobert Thewe
and John Thewe, to Henry Swynow, of all their lands, etc.,

* Seal : circular, yellow wax. A shield within a reticulated border, a chev-
ron between three herons,
f Now Eshot.

| In the chapelry of Ancroft and parish of Holy Island.
§ There is a pedigree of the Swinhoe family in Baine's North Durham,

&237. The inq. p. m. of Robert Swynno alias Swynhowe was taken at
orham, Nov. 18, 1467. Henry, aged 21, was his son and next heir. He died
seised of the manor of Scremerston. He also held moieties of the manors of
Great and Little Usworth in Durham (44 Dep. Keeper of Public Records'
Reports, 498). His son's inq. p. m. was taken at Norham, Oct. 27, 1496. He
died seised of Scremerston. His son John was aged 24 (Ibid., p. 499).

|| For Beaduell and Swinhoe, in the parish of Bamburgh, on the coast south
of that place, see the New History of Northumberland, i, 319, 334.

120 ttOBTft COUNTRY DEEDS.

in the vills of Swynowe and Bednell in the county of North-
umberland, and of a moiety of their manor of Little
Usworth* iu the county of Durham, which they had had of
Henry's grant. Witnesses : Thomas Bradforth, Nicholas
Blaxton, Eobert Hopyn, esquires. Swynowe. (No. 28.)
Four seals in bad condition.

Same day. Letters of attorney from the grantors to
Edmund Crawsestre to deliver seisin, and from Henry
Swynow to Thomas Ilderton to receive seisin. (Nos. 10, 33.)

Nov. 14, 9 Edward IV. (1469). Grant by Henry
Swynowe, esq., to Thomas Bradforth and Nicholas Blaxton,
esquires, of the property comprised in the last grant.
Witnesses : Eobert Hopyn, Thomas Ilderton, Edmund
Crawsetre, esquires. Swynow. (No. 25.)

Nov. 15. Letters of attorney from Swynowe to Eobert
Hopyn to deliver seisin, and from Bradforth and Blaxton to
Thomas Thewe to receive seisin. (Nos. 30, 31.)

Nov. 16, 9 Edward IV. (1469). Grant in special tail by
Thomas Bradforth and Nicholas Blaxton, esquires, to Henry
Swynow and Maud, his wife, of the same. Witnesses the
same. Swynowe. (No. 19.)

Dec. 18. Letters of attorney from the grantees to
Thomas Fairhare to receive seisin. (No. 8.)

LITTLE TOSSON.f

May 8, 11 Henry IV. (1410). Grant by Marjory, who
had been wife of William de Eyle,J sister and heir of John
de Warton, and Eichard de Eyle, his son, to William, son
of Eobert Herbotill, of Chilton, of a tenement she had had
of the grant of the said John de WartonJ in the vill and
territory of Litell-Tosson. Witnesses: Eobert de Umfra-
vile, knt., Thomas de Bekerton,J Hugh Galon. Littel
Tosson. (No. 11.) ||

* Little Usworth, west of Sunderland.
f In the parish of Rothbury.

J Ryle in the parish of Whittingham, and Warton and Bickerton in that
of Rothbury.

|| Two small seals : red wax. One T, the other a shield blurred.

COUNTRY DEEDS. 121

Northumbrian Et, quia videtur baronibus non fore pro-
cedendum ad judicium in premissis reddendum antequam
prefatus Radulphus sacramentum prestiterit corporale coram
baronibus huius scaccarii, ad deferendum curie hie pro
pref'ato iiuper vicecomite tarn omnimodas tallias quam
acquietancias, eidein nuper vicecomiti racione officii sui pre-
dicti pro aliquibus solucionibus per ipsum nuper vicecomi-
tem siue per aliquem alium eius nomine factas, liberatas
et per ipsum nuper vicecomitem aut aliquos firmarios seu
debitores alicui siue aliquibus personis solutas siue con-
tentatas, per quas ipse nuper vicecomes aliquam allo-
cacionem pro officio suo predicto habere debuisset pro
comniodo regis, etc., necnon quandam declaracionein de
omnibus denariorum sunimis tarn in summonicionibus pipe
quain viridis cere, eidem nuper vicecomiti separatim directis,
contentis, et per ipsum nuper vicecomitem seu ministros
suos leuatis ; dictum est per eosdem barones predicto
Radulpho quod prestet sacramentum in forma predicta. Et
super hoc idem Radulphus prestitit sacramentum corporale
coram baronibus eodem die quod nulle huiusmodi tallie seu
acquietancie pro aliquibus hujusmodi solucionibus per pre-
fatum nuper vicecomitem in vita sua factas [sic] eidem
Eadulpho post mortem prefati nuper vicecomitis liberate
fuerunt, nee quod alique hujusmodi summoniciones tarn
pipe quam viridis cere eidem nuper vicecomiti in vita sua
liberate f uerunt, nee aliquos denarios virtute eorundem [sic]
summonicionum percepit seu habuit. Quibus per barones
visis, auditis et intellectis habitaque matura deliberacione
inde inter eosdem, dictum est prefato Kadulpho Bowes quod
quo ad aliquem compotum regis in premissis reddendum eat
ad presens sine die pretextu perdoiiacionis predicte et
aliorum premissorum.

In memorandis scaccarii de anno sexto regis Edwardi
quarti (1466) j- in quodam processu tangente Willelmum
Bowes militem, nuper vicecomitem comitatus Northumbrie,
videlicet, terinino sancti Michaelis, rotulo lvjto ex parte
rememoratoris thesaurarii,J continente ut supra.

* William Bowes, sheriff of Northumberland, died on Aug. 8, 5 Edward IV.
(1465). According to his inq. p.m., taken at Auckland, Oct. 11, 1466, William,
his son and heir, was aged 22. The above-named Ralph Bowes, through whom
the family was continued (44 Dep. Keeper of Public Record Reports, pp. 320,
321), was executor of Maude, widow and executrix of the sheriff. She was a
daughter of Ralph, lord Fitzhugh.

t See L. T. ]i. Exchequer Memoranda. No. 239.

t Remem' thes'.

122 tfORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

Dorso : The acquitance of the sherefwyk of Northumbre-
land, mayd for Sir William Bowes, knycht. (No. 39.)

YORKSHIRE.

LAYTHAM.*

Quitclaim by William, son of Peter de Lathom, to his
lord, Philip de la Ley, of 2^ acres of land in the territory
of Lathoin, out of the tenement he held of the same Sir
Philip ; that is, two selions, lying in a place called Nord-
benelandes, extending northwards to the boundary of
Meckelburne,f one selion of which lay between the land
once belonging to John Batayle and the land Richard son
of Ernis had held, and the other selion lay between the land
held by the said Richard and the land of Roger son of Eudo ;
and one selion lay on the east side of the way out (exitus)
of the vill of Lathom, leading to Folkethorp,:}; between the
land of Richard son of Eudo and the land Pagan Nordhyby
had held ; and one selion in Oustmor lying between the land of
William de Folkethorp and the land of the dower of Agnes,
the said Eudo's widow; and one butt (buttam) on Fosse,
lying between the land of Agnes' dower and the land of
Thomas the grantor's brother ; and three butts of land,
lying between the land which had belonged to the said John
Batayle and the dower of the said Agnes, which began
at the headland (forarium) of Brenderis and reached to
Rehedsic, and right of free entry and egress. For this quit-
claim Philip had paid William 40s. sterling in his pressing
need (in mea urgente necessitate). Witnesses : Peter de Haya,
knt., Richard his son, Roger de Lutton,§ James de Batayle,
John Batayle of Willegt',|| E,oger de Hugate, Richard de
Herlethorp, William his brother, Roger son of Eudo de

* In the East Riding, in the parish of Aughton, eight miles north-east of
Selby. No member of the de la Ley family is mentioned as holding land in
Laytham in the various documents printed in Kirkby's Inquest.

t Melbourne.

J Foggathorpe.

§ It is doubtful whether this name, which occurs more than once, is Linton
or Lutton.

|| Probably Willitoft, south-east of Bubwith. Called Wilgetoft in 1316-7
(Kirkby's Inquest, p. 309).

COUNTRY DfcEDS.

128

Lathom, Thomas son of Peter of the same, Geoffrey Free-
man (libero) of -the same, Robert de Letham, Richard the
clerk. Dorso : Coiifirmacio de Laton (sic). (No. 15.)

Release by William,, son of Peter de Lathom, to his lord,
Philip de Leya, of all the lands with the pasture, which
William, son of Godfrey de Folkertorp, held of William by
charters in the territory of Lathom 011 Ascension Day,
1254. Witnesses : Peter de Haya, knt., Roger de Luttona,
Roger de Hugate, James Batayle, Robert Batayle, Peter his
brother, Roger son of Eudo de Lathom, Geoffrey Freeman
(libero) of the same, Richard the clerk. (No. 41.)

Release by William, son of Peter de Lathum, to Sir
Philip de Leya of three and a half acres of land in the terri-
tory of Lathum, with 3s. rent in the vill of Lathum, which
Jose de JELantun had been wont to pay to William, namely,
at Whit Sunday I8d. and at Martinmas ISd. Of the three
acres of land two selions (silliones) lay Attebeneland' and
abutted on the Fosse*; and one selion lay towards the south
of Michilsike between the land of the said P. de Leya
and that of Thomas Norfcheby ; and one selion, called
Suthrisdayle, lay between the land of Master John de
Houeden and the land of Richard son of Ernis ; and one
selion, called Siuardtof fce, lay between the land of Richard
son of Ernis and the land of Aiignes de Evirwike. Philip
had given the grantor a sum of money beforehand when in
great need. Witnesses : Sir Peter de le Hay, Richard de le
Hay, James Batayle, Robert Batayle, Peter Batayle, Roger
[dej Luttona, Thomas Norhiby, Geoffrey Fremanne, Wil-
liam Hasstike. (No. 6.)f

Release by Roger, son of Eudo de Lathom, to his lord,
Philip de Leya, of half an acre of land which he held of his
fee in the territory of Lathom, lying in two places, that is,
one selion near Haysam on the east side of the vill, and one
selion at the north end of Frhitsic dike. Witnesses : Peter
de Haya, Richard his son, Roger de Lutton, Robert Batayle,
Peter his brother, John Bataile, Ralph de Welle, William
Suthiby of Lathom, Thomas his brother, Geoffrey Freeman
(libero) of the same, Richard the clerk. Dorso : Item de
Laton. (No. 5.)

* Now called the Fosse Dike.

t Seal : green wax, vesioa shaped. A crescent above a star ........

PETBI.

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

Grant by Philip de la Leye to William de Folkethorp,
for his homage and service, of all the land in Lathom with
pasture which the grantee held by charters of William, son
of Peter de Lathom, of his fee, on Whit Sunday, 1254, and
of all the land he held at the same time by charters of
Roger, son of Eudo de Lathom, also of his fee, in Lathom,
at a yearly rent of 10s. sterling, payable half-yearly at Whit
Sunday and Martinmas, and of a penny at Christmas for
forinsec service, and by doing suit at Philip's court at
Lathom. Witnesses : Peter de Haya, William de Skipwit,
Thomas de Houeton, Richard de Haya, Roger de Lutton,
Richard de Herletorp, Robert Bataile, Peter his brother,
Robert de Letham, Richard son of Philip de Haya, Robert
de Mustroil, Walter son of William de Bubwiht, Richard
the clerk. (No. 14.)*

SOWERBY-UNDER-COTCLIFF.f

Thursday in Easter week (April 2), 1377. Release by
William de Sowreby to Robert de Whaltoii of all right in a
messuage and eight bovates of land in Sowreby juxta
Sygheston, which had formerly belonged to William's
father. Sowreby. (No. 42.) {

SCOTLAND.

CAMIESTOJST.§

Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris, Willelmus
juuenis et Tunnoc, uxor sua, salutem. Noveritis nos pro
nobis et heredibus nostris reddidisse, concessisse et hac
presenti carta nostra quietam. clamasse in perpetuum domino
Philippo de Ley a et domine Ade, uxori sue, et eorum
heredibus. totain terrain illam de Cambes cum omnibus
pertinenciis suis sine aliquo retenemento, quam de eis
tenuimus, scilicet, to tarn terciani partem terrarum nostra-
rum de dominio sue tercie partis, que jacet in decem

* Seal : white wax, poor condition. A floral design,
f In the parish of Kirby Sigston, four miles east of North Allerton.
t Seal : a floral design.

§ In Roxburghshire, two and a half miles south-west of Newton St. Boewell.
Ex. inf. of Mr. George Neilson.

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS. 125

culturis ; ex quibus tres culture jacent versus orientem
crofti nostri, et septem alie culture incipiunt ex parte
oriental! et tendunt versus occidentem, ex quibus culturis
una est pratum, scilicet, prima cultura, et alie particule terre
predicte, quedam sunt arabiles, et quedam sunt prata, sicut
mensurantur, et inter nos continentur. Ten end' et habend'
libere et quiete, plenarie et honorifice et integre, cum
omnibus aisiamentis ad predictam terrain pertinentibus.
Pro hac vero concessions et quieta clamatione dictus
Philippus et Ada, uxor sua, nobis in magna necessitate
quinque marcas argenti pacaverunt. Nos vero et heredes
nostri hanc quietam clamacionem et istius scripte tenorem
predictis Philippo et Ade, uxori sue, et eorum heredibus,
contra oinnes homines et feminas warantizabimus et defen-
demus in perpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti
scripto sigilla nostra apposuimus. Hiis testibus, domino
Heimero, tune vicecomite de Kokisburc', Gilberto, fratre
suo, domino Andrea de Linton', magistro Ada de Boggate,
Paulino clerico de Rokisburc', Serlone persona de Minuth','*
Ada persona de Rule Bethoc, Hugone de Eulewde, Johanne
Anglico, Eoberto de Lundoniis, Willelmo Spic, Costintino
[#ic] de Glrenduiie, Radulpho clerico, qui hanc cartam
scripsit, et aliis. Dorso : Cambes. (No. 18.) f

MINTO.

Anno ab incarnacione Domini M° CCC° secundo, .die
dominica in octabis natiuitatis sancti Johannis baptiste
(July l),facta fuit hec conuencio inter [dominum] Walterum
de Boredham,J Walterum filium suum et heredem, ex parte
vna, et dominum Philippum de la Ley, Johannem tilium

* Mimith is Minto, and Rule Bethoc, Bedrule.

f Two labels : only one seal. Circular, green wax. A fleur-de-lys. SIGILL
'TV.NNOC.

t Walter de Burghdon was a man of some importance in Scotland at this
time. He probably came from Burradon, a township in the parish of Alwinton,
not far from Eothbury. Walter de Rothebery is one of the witnesses. He'
was sheriff of Perth in 1295-6 (Bain's Calendar of Documents relating to Scot-
land, i., 264). On Aug. 28, 1296, he, as a Roxburghshire landowner, paid
homage to Edward I. at Berwick, when he bore a cinquefoil on his seal (Ibid.,
p. 199). In 1301 and 1302 he was in command of Carstairs Castle, and sheriff
of Lanark. His signet bore a lion ( Ibid., pp. 317, 336). In 1305 he occurs as
a justice in Galloway, in company with Sir Roger Kirkpatrick (Ibid., p. 457).
Three years later he and Odard Heron were sureties for the good behaviour of
William Olyfart, a Scotchman, who had been made prisoner at Stirling (Ibid.,
ii., 8). Sir Gilbert de Burghdone or Boroughdone, who was sheriff of North-
umberland, 16—18 Edward II., bore in 1323 three cinquefoils within an engrailed
border (Ibid., p. 151), shewing some connection with Umfraville.

126 NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

suum et heredem, ex altera ; videlicet, quod pre dictus
dominus Walterus, Walterus filius suus et heres, bona et
spontanea voluntate sua concesserunt pro se et heredibus
suis et assignatis predictis domino Philippo, Johanni filio
suo et heredi, seu eorum heredibus et assignatis, medietatem
totarum terrarum quas in baronia de Mimtow impetrauerunt
vel aliquo te in pore impetrare poterunt de cunctis tenentibus
eiusdem baronie cum aduocacione ecclesie de Mimtow et
omnibus aliis pertinenciis ad dictas terras spectantibus vel
pertinere valentibus, sine aliquo retinemento. Eodem niodo
dictus dominus Philippus, Johannes filius suus et heres,
concesserunt pro se et heredibus suis seu assignatis dictis
domino Walter o, Waltero filio suo et heredi, et eorum
heredibus seu assignatis medietatem totarum ten arum quas
in baronia de Mimtow impetrauerunt vel aliquo tempore
impetrare poterunt infra dictam baroniam cum aduocacione
ecclesie et omnibus aliis pertinenciis ad dictas terras spec-
tantibus, sicud predictuui est, sine aliquo retinemento. Ita
quod si contingat dictum doininum Philippum, Johannem
filium suum et heredem, et eorum heredes seu assignatos
super dictis terris inquietari, conueniri seu implacitari, dictus
dominus Walterus, Walterus filius suus et heres, seu eorum
heredes et assignati, predicto domino Philippo, Johanni filio
suo et heredi, seu eorum heredibus et assignatis, in medie-
tate expensarum necessariarum per predictuui dominum
Philippum, Johannem filium suum et heredem, seu eorum
heredes et assignatos, factarum racione dictarum terrarum
sustinendarum contra quoscunque, placitum uel litem super
dictis terris mouentes, pro se et heredibus suis efficaciter se
adinuicem obligauerunt. Et eciam dictus dominus Philippus,
Johannes fiJius suus et heres, pro se et heredibus suis seu
assignatis, dicto domino Waltero, Waltero filio suo et
heredi, seu eorum heredibus et assignatis, in medietate
expensarum necessariarum, si quas fecerint uel incurrerint
racione dictarum terrarum sustinendarum, sicud predictum
est vnanimiter se obligauerunt. Interim dictus dominus Wal-
terus de Boredona, Walterus filius suus et heres, obligant se et
heredes suos seu assignatos dicto domino Philippo, Johanni,
filio suo et heredi, heredibusque suis et assignatis, in medie-
tatem dictarum terrarum quas possident ex diuisione predicta,
si contingat quod absit porcionem dicti domini Philippi,
Johannis filii sui et heredis, seu eorum heredum, ab eisdem
per placitum vel alio quocumque modo euinci, vel saltern
pro porcione euicta si minus solida sua parte euincatur.
Eodem modo si contingat porcionem dicti domini Walteri,

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS. 127

Walter! filii sui et heredis, seu eorum heredum uel assigna-
torum, aliquo modo euinci in toto uel in parte, dictus
dominus Philippus, Johannes filius suus et heres, eorumque
heredes seu assignati, dicto domino Waltero, Waltero filio
sno et heredi, eorum heredibus seu assignatis, fideliter sine
omni contradiccione uel cauillacione de porcione sua retenta
quantum concessum fuerit uel euictum ab eisdem restituent.
Et est sciendnm quod dictus dominus Walterus, Walterus
filius suus et heres, concesserunt pro se et heredibus suis
seu assignatis dicto domino Philippo, Johanni filio suo et
heredi, et eorum heredibus et assignatis, plenam ac solidam
presentacionem predicte ecclesie de Mimtow cuicumque
voluerint presentandam, quandocumque per mortem magistri
Dauid de Boredona rectoris predicta ecclesia vacauerit, ea
racione qua dictus dominus Philippus dicto magistro Dauid
de Boredhona jus suum predicte ecclesie concessit et appel-
lacioni facte curie Romane pro filio suo facte totaliter
renunciauit. Et extunc concordatum est inter partes quod
unus quasi jus in solidum habens vna vice et alius alia vice,
[ad] predictam ecclesiam presentabit. Et ad maiorem huius
rei securitatem sigillum dicti domini Walteri vna cum sigillo
Walteri filii sui et heredis present! scripto cyrograffato
penes dominum Philippum et Johannum filium suum et
heredem residenti est appensum. Hiis testibus, dominis
Wllelmo Redell', Wllelmo de Muscocampo, Thoma Gray,
militibus, Waltero de Eothebery, Johanne de Hornecleff',
Wllelmo filio Henrici de Mimtow, Eoberto bercario eiusdem
ville, et aliis multis. (No. 12.)

Grant by Eannulf son of Thomas to Gilbert Prest of all
his lands in Suthcroft* by these boundaries, namely, the
lands lying between the lands of Adam the clerk towards
the south ; and the land lying between the land of the said
Adam and the land of Maude Tredegold ; and the land lying
between the said Adam's land and the land of Robert Coket;
and the land lying between the lands of the said Robert
Coket on the west, for a sum of money paid beforehand in
the grantor's great need, paying a penny a year at Whit-
suntide to the grantor, and three pence a year to the lord of
the fee, half-yearly at Martinmas and Rogations (ad roga-
ciones). Witnesses : John Tyne, Peter de Biham, then reeve
(preposito), William Arthur, William Abraarn, Richard Can',

* The name of the vill or parish in which Southcroft lay is not given ; pos-
sibly in Lincolnshire, where Biham, now Bytham, is situated.

128 NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

Thomas de Derebi, Roger de Ponte, Adam the clerk, Robert
Cuteler, Reginald the chapman (mercatore) , Helyas the
butcher (carnifice), Robert Leuyn, Robert Coket, Walran the
baker. Dorso : Carta Ran' filii Thorn' Pott'. (No. 1.)*

PRAYER FOR A WOMAN IN CHILDBIRTH.t

(Oratio.) Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui beatissimam
virginem et matrem Mariam in conceptu et in partu conse-
crasti et Jonam prophetam de ventre ceti potent! virtute
liberasti . . . . N. famulam tuam grauidam protege et visita
earn in salutari tuo ut proles, in ilia concepta, feliciter in
lucem producat et ad graciam lauacri salutaris perueniat,
(ipsa quoque in pariente dolorem) misericorditer evadat, et a
mortis periculo secura perueniat.

(Secreta.) Suscipe, quesumus, Domine, preces et hostias
humilitatis nostre et famulam tuam N. scuto proteccionis
tue defende, et quam ex tua gracia gravidam esse voluisfci,
hanc adueniente partus tempore graciose libera et ab omni-
bus perturbacionibus cum prole in ipsa concepta clementer
conserua per, etc.

(Postcommunio.) Adesto suplicacionibus nostris Omni-
potens Deus et famule tue largiflue proteccionis tue in anus
concede vt adueniente tempore parturiendi gracie tue pre-
sidium suscipiat et proles quam ediderit percepto lauacro
salutari gloriosis feliciter proficiat incrementis per, etc.

(Oratio.) OmnipotensJ sempiterne Deus, qui per sanctos
apostolos et martires tuos diuersa sanitatum dona largiri
dignatus es, concede, quesumus, vt pregnantem famulam
tuam N., que ex puerperii instriccione diu vexatur, per
intercessionem beate Marie semper virginis, et omnium sanc-
torum angelorum et archangelorum, patriarcharum, pro-
phetarum, ac potestatum et apostolorum, euangelistarum,
martirum, conf essorum, atque sanctarum virginum et omnium

* Seal : a fleur de lys. EADULFI FILII THOME.

f Seethe Sarum Missal (Burntisland edition), col. 822*, Memorise Com-
munes, Pro prsegnante. Some copies with verbal differences, most of which
have not been noted here, add " quam fecit Papa Crelestinus cum Secreta et
Postcommunione pro sorore sua prsegnante, et concessit c dies indulgentise
cuilibet sacerdoti earn dicenti devote et infra missam oranti pro muliere prseg-
nante." (J. T. F.)

£ Adapted from " Missa pro febricitantibus, memoria de Sancto Sigismundo
rege et martyre, jacente in civitate Subdunensi" (rectius Sedunensi). The
words relating to fever are altered to suit pregnancy, and the Blessed Virgin
is put in place of St. Sigismund. Sarum Missal (Burntisland), col. 823*.
Memorise Communes, (J. T. F.)

NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS.

129

sanctorum medicina, erigatur* ad salutem et deliberacionem
pristinam prompcius partu resolui dignetur.* ut ab eius vtero
fructus ad vitam Cristianitatis perueuire mereatur per, etc.

(Secreta.) Offerimus tibi,, Domine, munera in nomine
beate Marie semper virginis et omnium electorum tuorum,
vt a famula tua N. pregnante egrota puerperii ardores repelli
iubeas et exinde tuo semper muniatur auxilio per, etc.

(Postcommunio.) Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui
dedisti famulis tuis obtinere omnia que iuste precantur,
suscipe propicius preces nostras quas pro famula tua N.
pregnante in honore beate Marie semper virginis et omnium
sanctorum tuorum deferrimus, vt quod pro ea deuotis men-
tibus consecramus celibrif (sic) indulgencia consequi mereatur
per Dei, etc.

* Erigas and digneris in the Sarum Missal.
Celeri in the Sarum Missal.

DOCUMENTS

RELATING TO

DIOCESAN AND PROVINCIAL
VISITATIONS

FKOM THE EEGISTERS OF
HENBY BOWET,

LORD AECHBISHOP OP YORK,
7 OCT. 1407—20 OCT. 1423,

AND

JOHN KEMPE,

CARDINAL-PRIEST OP SANTA BALB1NA,

LORD ARCHBISHOP OP YORK,
20 JULY 1425—21 JULY 1452.

INTRODUCTION.

fTTHE documents which follow, selected from the registers
of archbishops Bowet and Kempe, form an interesting if
incomplete record of their primary visitations of their huge
diocese, and of a few other visitations exercised by them.
They are arranged chronologically, as far as possible, and
consist of the following varieties : (1) Preliminary notices
sent to the various archdeacons or to persons responsible for
their execution. (2) Schedules appended to the said notices,
containing a detailed programme or diarium of the visitation
announced in them. (3) Preliminary notices to convents
of religious persons within the archbishops' jurisdiction.
(4) Notices to convents of orders exempt from their juris-
diction, requiring procurations in the form of food and
entertainment, which were exacted as a matter of form
during the primary visitation of a diocesan. (5) Certificates
of the receipt and execution of preliminary mandates by the
persons addressed. (6) Records of the process of visitation.
(7) Detecta presented to the visitor by the persons cited or
examined during such process. To these are added a few
other pertinent documents, such as a bull authorising arch-
bishop Kempe to exercise his visitation by commission, and
commissions issued by himself and his predecessor. Finally,
as an appendix illustrating the visitations of the dean and
chapter of York by both archbishops, is given the text of
the composition made in 1328, by which such visitations
were permanently regulated, from a collation of the copy at
the end of Kempe's register with the original copy in that
of archbishop Melton.

Of the first four classes, (1), (2) and (4) are modelled upon
common forms, and, instead of repeating these again and
again, one complete specimen of each form has been given,
and any important variations upon it, which occur in similar

134 INTRODUCTION.

documents, have been noted in their proper place. Of class
(2), Bowet's schedules for all the archdeaconries of the
diocese, except that of Bichmoiid, in 1409 and 1410, and
Kempe's schedules for the whole diocese in 1440-2, remain.
Kempe's schedules for Richmond archdeaconry in 1428, and
for the diocese of Durham in 1437-9, form additions to these
of some value. Such detailed documents are extremely rare
in episcopal registers, although it is frequently possible to
recover their bare outlines by a careful collection of the
dates appended to documents issued while a bishop was
engaged in the work of visitation. The primary object of
an episcopal register was to preserve the common forms
upon which the extensive correspondence of a diocesan
chancery was conducted, together with such necessary
records of business as had to be preserved for future
reference. In this particular instance, the schedules were
copied into the registers, not for the benefit of future
historians, but for the guidance of the clerks to whom the
composition of similar documents should be entrusted in the
future. As Kempe's schedules shew a somewhat better

"arrangement than Bowet's, and as no others have been
preserved in later registers, at any rate for the next century
and for some time later, it is to be presumed that they
formed the model upon which visitations of the diocese were
conducted for some time to come.

Of classes (5), (6) and (7), much less remains. From a
historical point of view (6) and (7) are most interesting.
From the registrar's standpoint, they had little utilitarian
value. The actual records of visitations were preserved in
separate books, such as those few which by a fortunate
chance have escaped destruction at Lincoln. The circum-
stances which prompted the inclusion of certain processes of
visitation and detecta in Bowet's and Kempe's registers are
easily explained. The districts or bodies which they concern
are some of those in which the archbishops' jurisdiction as

^diocesans or metropolitans was subject to dispute or definite
limitation. The chapters of York and B^verley and the
archdeaconry of Richmond were republics within the diocese,

INTRODUCTION. 135

in which the slightest infringement of privilege by the arch-
bishop might lead, as in the case of Alexander Nevill's
autocratic behaviour at Beverley in 1881, to endless quarrels
and litigations. Even more delicate was the question of the
archbishop's jurisdiction in the diocese of Durham, and
especially in the cathedral priory. It was therefore desirable
to preserve some record of visitations actually exercised on
such debateable ground. With regard to the diocese of
York generally, no such record was necessary ; and the
detecta obtained from individual parishes or monasteries,
although they were doubtless recorded separately at the
time, were not of such permanent importance as to be copied
into the official register. The inclusion of fair copies of
injunctions delivered to monasteries depended much upon
the taste of the registrar. Neither Bowel's nor Kempe's
-registrar appears to have valued their preservation, and they
were apparently allowed to remain in a more perishable
form. It is noteworthy that, while a large number of
injunctions were recorded in full in the registers of two of
Kempe's contemporaries at Lincoln, bishops Flemyng and
Gray, the injunctions of their successor, William Alnwick,
exist only in a rough copy on paper, and his register contains
only one scanty set of injunctions relating to Bardney
abbey.

To attempt biographies of archbishops Bowet and Kempe
in this place would be too long a task. It is sufficient to
say that Henry Bowet, archdeacon of Lincoln from 1386,
was consecrated bishop of Bath and Wells by archbishop
Aruiidel in St. Paul's cathedral, 20 Nov. 1401.* He was
translated to the see of York by papal bull on 7 Oct. 1407,
the temporalities being restored to him 011 1 Dec. following,t
after the long vacancy following the execution of archbishop
Scrope. He ruled the see for just over sixteen years, dying
on 20 Oct. 1423. 1 His death was followed by a vacancy of
nearly two years. On 15 Feb. 1423-4, Eichard Flemyng,

Stubbs, Reg. Sac., p. 84. f Cal. Pat. 1405—8, p. 383,

I Stubbs, ut sup.

136 INTRODUCTION.

bishop of Lincoln, a consistent supporter of the papacy at
the council of Siena, was provided to the archbishopric.*
The chapter of York, however, had elected Philip Morgan,
bishop of Worcester, upon a conge d'elire issued on
16 November, I423.f Flemyng was unable to obtain the
execution of his bull without incurring the penalties of
prtemunire, and the deadlock which ensued was ended by
the consent of the Crown to the re-translation of Flemyng
to Lincoln and the concurrent translation of John Kempe,
bishop of London, to York. The necessary bulls were issued
011 20 July, 1425,J from which date, as the internal evidence
of Kempe's register proves, his pontifical years at York
were reckoned. Curiously enough, however, the entry at
the beginning of his register gives 1426 as the year of his
translation instead of 1425. This mistake was copied,
doubtless from the register, by the author of the continua-
tion of Stubbs5 chronicle, and has found its way, so far as
the present writer has observed, into everything that has
been written about the archbishop.

John Kempe, previously archdeacon of Durham for a
short time, was consecrated bishop of Rochester in 1419,
probably at Rouen on 3 December. § He was translated to
Chichester by bull, 28 Feb. 1420-1, || and from Chichester to
London on 17 Nov. 1421.^[ He remained at York for
twenty-seven years from 1425, was translated to Canterbury
on 21 July, 1452,** and died on 22 March, 1453-4. From
1426 to 1432, and from 1450 to 1454, he held the high office
of chancellor of England, and in 1438 he received the
cardinalate from pope Eugenius IV. His life belongs rather
to the history of England than to that of the see of York ;
but it is evident from the documents which follow that he

* Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 345-6. f Cal. Pat. 1422—9, p. 138.

£ They are not noted in Cal. Papal Letters, but the date appears from
Reg. Kempe, passim, and Line. Epis. Reg. Flemyng. Kempe's temporalities
were not restored till 22 April, 1426 (Cal. Pat., 1422—9, p. 331).

§ Stubbs, ui sup., p. 80. He was provided, 21 June, 1419 (Cal. Papal
Letters, vii., 133).

|| Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 191. 1 Ibid., vii., 161.

** Le Neve, i., 110.

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-attempted seriously to fulfil his often interrupted duties as
archbishop. The gate-house of Cawood castle is an abiding
memorial of his residence in his diocese. Moreover, he
surrounded himself and filled the dignities of his cathedral
church with an exceptionally able staff of clerks. The
activities of William Felter, John Bernyngham, and John
Marchall receive, illustration in these pages ; while the
documents printed in Testamenta JUboracensia prove the
amity and mutual good-fellowship which existed between
them.

The notices of Bowet's primary visitation of his diocese
occur in various parts of his register, among the documents
relating to the various chapters, archdeaconries, and
spiritualities with which they are concerned. There are no
details of his visitation of the archdeaconry of Richmond,
of the chapters of Bipon and Southwell, or of his jurisdic-
tion of Hexhamshire. Otherwise, his programme remains
in full. His intention was to perform the visitation in
person : the only part left to a commissary was the examina-
tion of business regarding the outlying fragment of the
diocese in Gloucestershire. The earliest notice, addressed
to the dean of the Christianity of York, was despatched
from Cawood castle on 12 March, 1408-9. Those intended
for the archdeacon of York, the religious houses in that
archdeaconry which the archbishop proposed to visit, and
the exempt houses from which he demanded hospitality by
way of a procuration were issued on 15 March. The similar
notices for the archdeaconry of Nottingham bear date
10 May, the day before the archbishop was advertised to
begin his visitation of the city of York.

According to the programme, this part of the visitation
occupied three days, beginning on Saturday, 1] May, and
ending on Tuesday, the 14th. Nothing was done upon the
intervening Sunday, and there is no indication that Bowet
visited St. Mary's abbey. The clergy of the churches
belonging to the peculiar of the dean and chapter were
exempt from visitation, but the parishioners, at any rate,
"were expected to attend. After his visitation of the York

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parishes, the archbishop waited for two days, until the feast
of the Ascension was past. On the morrow of that festival,
he entered upon his visitation of the deanery of Ainsty at
Aberford. The various stages of his progress may be traced
in the text, and need not be detailed here. Its western
limit for the time being was Kirks tall abbey, where he spent
the Sunday after Ascension day with his whole household.
From Drax he returned to spend Whitsuntide at Cawood,
and during this interval issued his notices to the guardians
of the spiritualities of Howden and Howdenshire, Snaith,
and Selby. On Monday, 3 June, he resumed his progress at
Selby abbey. Journeying through the deanery of Pontefract,
-he reached his peculiar jurisdiction of Otley on the 7th, and
from the 8th to the 1 1th occupied himself with the deanery
of Craven. His most westerly point was Skipton, and he-
appears to have made no arrangement which included the
remote parishes of Bolton-by-Bowland — although to this
there is a doubtful reference — and Slaidburn, on the borders
of Lancashire. Between the 12th and 15th he concluded
his visitation of Pontefract deanery, spending the 14th and
15th at St. Oswald's priory. On the 16th he visited Monk-
bretton priory, and began the visitation of the deanery of
Doiicaster on the 17th. This was finished at Hatfield on
the 25th. Sunday, the 23rd, was a day of rest, spent in the
exempt monastery of Roche : otherwise, every day was
occupied with the business in hand. The work was some-
what lightened by making Eotherham and Doncaster centres
of visitation for two days respectively. The last three days,
however, in view of the archbishop's subsequent movements,
were awkwardly arranged. From Roche he visited Tickhill
on the 24th. The Nottingham visitations were timed to
begin at Scrooby on the 26th, so that, to hold the concluding
session at Hatfield on the 25th, a deviation from the direct
route was necessary. Moreover, the Hatfield arrangements
were inconvenient for some of the parishes concerned.
Doncaster would have been a more appropriate centre for
the clergy and lay representatives of Hemsworth and Kirk
Smeatoii. The same inconvenience, however, is noticeable

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in the case of the parishes visited at Tickhill ; and it is
probable that the clerks who mapped out the scheme
consulted the apportionment of the daily procurations due
to the archbishop, without much regard to the geographical
fitness of their plan.

On the 26th the archbishop proceeded to visit the deanery
of Retford. His stay at the exempt house of Mattersey on
27 June was made the occasion for a visitation of the
vicarages in those parts which belonged to the chapter of
St. Sepulchre's chapel at York ; but on the 29th and 30th
he rested for entertainment at the abbeys of Welbeck and
Rufford. On 2 July he finished with Retford deanery. From
the 3rd to the 5th he visited the parishes of Newark
deanery, spending the 4th and 5th at Newark. The next
two days were spent in visiting Thurgarton priory ; and the
deanery of Bingham occupied the inside of the following
week, two days being devoted to Bingham and two to
Ruddington. On Sunday, 14 July, the archbishop was at
Lentbn priory. He began his visitation of Nottingham
deanery in St. Mary's at Nottingham on the 15th, where he
also summoned the clergy and layfolk of certain parishes,
hitherto omitted, of Bingham deanery. On the 18th he
visited Newstead priory with some of the adjacent parishes,
and, on the 19th, Felley priory ; and, on 20 July, he con-
cluded his visitation of the archdeaconry at Worksop priory.
From this point he probably returned to Scrooby or Cawood
for the following Snnday. On Tuesday, 23 July, he visited
the spirituality of Snaith. Next day he was at Howdeii,
and spent the rest of the week in visiting that spirituality at
three other centres. A round of visitations which had lasted
almost continuously for eight w^eks was concluded with the
spirituality of Selby on Monday, 29 July.

A long and systematic visitation of the East Riding, for
which the notices were sent ont on 3 August, was begun,
after an interval of eight weeks, at Kirkham priory, 011
Monday, 23 September. This visitation lasted over six
weeks, till 5 November, and the average number of parishes
summoned to the daily sessions was small compared with the

140 INTRODUCTION.

average for the archdeaconries of York and Nottingham.
The parishes of the small deanery of Buckrose occupied four
days, from 24 to 27 September. Dickering deanery was
spread over ten days, from 28 September to 7 October, one
day each being allotted to the churches and vicarages of
Scarborough, Hunmanby, and Bridlington, two days to
Bridlington priory, while Hunmanby was made a centre for
two days. Ten more days, from 8 to 17 October, were spent
in the deanery of Holderness. Of these, however, Sunday,
the 13th, was a day of repose at Meaux abbey. On Friday,
the 18th, the visitation of Harthill deanery was begun at
Hull. The archbishop was at Cottingham on the 19th : on
Sunday, the 20th, he was enthroned in Beverley minster,
which he visited next day. On the 22nd he visited the
Beverley parishes. The parishes of the provostry were not
visited at any special centre, but were included at various
centres with the other parishes of the deaneries of Harthill
and Holderness. After leaving Beverley the archbishop
visited Haltemprice and Ferriby priories. On the 25th he
continued his parochial visitations at Ferriby, and on the
26th made his manor of Bishop Burton his centre. He then
travelled through the north-eastern part of Harthill deanery,
spending the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude at Watton.
From Kirkburn, on 30 October, he turned westwards. All
Saints' day and All Souls' day were spent in visitations at
Warter. On 3 November he drew near York at Catton,
from which he turned southward to Sutton-on-Derwent
and, after receiving his procuration at Ellerton priory on
5 November, left the archdeaconry, apparently for Cawood.

It was not until the following 14 May, in 1410, that
Bowet sent out notices to the archdeaconry of Cleveland and
the spirituality of Northallerton and Allertonshire. The
visitation was opened at Stillingfleet on 30 June, after which
the archbishop journeyed northward through the deanery of
Bulmer. Two days were allowed for Marton priory and
three days for New burgh. Another day was allotted to
resting at Byland abbey, and Thirsk, the most northerly
point of the deanery, was reached on 10 July. From thq

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llth to the 18th Northallerton was the centre of visitation
for the parishes of the spirituality ; but, after finishing there
on the 13th, the archbishop opened his visitation of Cleve-
land deanery on the same day at Hutton Rudby. He
appointed four days for Gruisborough, one for the local
parishes, and three for the priory, and visited Wiiitby abbey
and parish church on 20 July. The visitation of Whitby
abbey probably extended over more than a day, for it was
not till the 23rd that the deanery of Ryedale was entered at
Brompton in Pickering Lythe. Here proceedings were more
expeditious, and the visitation, after four weeks all but
a day, ended with a halt for entertainment at Malton
priory.

Of Bowet's later visitations, the only detailed notices are
the summons issued to the chapter of Beverley for 10 August,
1416, and the fuller documents relating to his visitation of
the dean and chapter of York in June of the same year. The
York documents are of special interest, as they illustrate
the working of the composition between the archbishop and
the chapter, which had received its final form in 1328. The
full text of this famous composition, from the accurate copy
at the end of archbishop Kempe's register, collated with the
original copy in the register of archbishop Melton, will be
found, as already stated, at the end of the documents
included in this volume. It was the definitive form of an
agreement arrived at between archbishop John le Eomeyn
and the dean and chapter of his day in 1290. This earlier
composition appears to have afforded loop-holes for the
infringement of the liberties of the chapter by the visitor ;
and, to quiet the consequent disputes between the arch-
bishops and a republic jealous of its rights, pope John XXII.
appointed bishop Ayerminne of Norwich and Hugh of
Angouleme, archdeacon of Canterbury, commissaries to
examine and approve a settlement. The archdeacon was
unable to serve upon the commission, and the bishop con-
firmed the scheme which was submitted to him, after
consultation, by the proctors of the contending parties. By
this arrangement the archbishop was granted the right of

142 INTRODUCTION.

visiting the chapter once every four years, instead of once in
three years , as formerly. Most of the procedure appears
clearly from the account of Bowet's visitation. His notice
was sent out on 21 April,, a full two months before the date
appointed for the visitation, 22 June. On that day, at the
accustomed hour of chapter, he entered the chapter-house,
where the precentor, treasurer and five canons were present.
After having delivered or listened to a sermon, he remained
with three assessors and a clerk, not a notary public, and
received the certificate acknowledging the receipt and
execution of his summons. William Cawode, as proctor for
the chapter, entered a formal protest on behalf of their
liberties, which the archbishop on his side undertook to
respect, according to common law and the terms of the
composition. The actual visitation then followed. The
procedure is not stated in full ; but the composition required
a general demand, to be made to the chapter in common,
without any exaction of an oath or formal threat of penalties,
as to matters which called for correction. After this the
archbishop might examine the canons individually and in
private, but without any penal injunction, and with the
undertaking of his assessors and clerk, in presence of the
chapter, to keep faithfully, in dictating and writing the
evidence, to the actual words of each canon. The comperta
and detecta thus obtained and written down were delivered
to the chapter on the day following the visitation. The right
of correcting them was reserved to the chapter, with the
proviso that, if they failed to report their corrections within
ten months, the archbishop might take the right into his
own hands, not, however, without timely notice of his inten-
tion to the dean, or, in the dean's absence, to the senior
canon in residence, nor without the advice of the chapter.
At the same time, the right of depriving canons of their
canonries and prebends was retained absolutely by the
archbishop, as a complement to his power of collation.
Further clauses of the composition exempted the chapter
from the payment of procurations after the hundred shillings
due at the first visitation, and reserved to them the privilege

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of exercising1 unimpeded visitation within their own peculiar
jurisdiction.

The correction of the comperta was certified to Bowet on
2 April, 1417,, between nine and ten months after his visita-
tion. In the meantime, the deanery, which had been vacant
in the previous June, had been filled by the election of
Thomas Polton, afterwards bishop of Hereford and Worcester.
He,, however, was away from York at this time, and the
chapter answered the archbishop in their own name. They
appear to have corrected such defaults as related purely to
their own property and the maintenance of order within the
close ; but those in which the liberties of -the archbishop
were of joint concern with their own were left to his
correction in consultation with them, and with these was
included the deliberation of measures to hasten the comple-
tion of the fabric of the minster. This certificate closes a
series of documents which form an instructive addition to
the constitutional history of the church of York.

The visitation documents in archbishop Kempe's register
are collected in two portions of the volume. In ff. 210 — 218
are the notices of a visitation of the archdeaconry of Rich-
mond, held in the late summer of 1428, followed by an
interesting account of the proceedings of the first three days,
with the depositions from various parishes. In pursuance of
notices issued on 22 June, the visitation began at Golds-
borough on 24 August. The most interesting depositions
on this occasion related to dilapidations in the churches of
Goldsborough and Knaresborough, the roofs and windows of
which were sadly in need of repair. From Goldsborough the
archbishop proceeded directly to St. Robert's at Knares-
borough, where the minister and brethren met him with
a plea for exemption from his visitation, alleging the
authority of a papal bull. This bull, which apparently
exempted the whole order of Trinitarians from episcopal
jurisdiction, was said to be among the archives of the chief
house of the order in France ; and Kempe graciously
adjourned his visitation till 1 September in the year
following, to give time for the production of the original or

144 INTRODUCTION.

of a copy. According- to his preliminary programme, he
spent the night at St. Robert's,, and went on next day
to Eipley. Here the depositions were of little importance,
but complaints were made of the morals of the rector of
Staveley. The archbishop was scheduled to pass the night
at Fountains, and on 26 August he appeared at Wensley. In
addition to the local clergy, there met him here the arch-
deacon of Richmond, and the abbots of the exempt houses
of Coverham and Jervaulx, with whom he proposed to lodge
on the nights of the 26th and 27th. The report of the
petition which they presented on behalf of the clergy and
people of the whole archdeaconry is somewhat obscurely and
allusively worded. It appears, however, that Kempe had
foregone his primary visitation of the rest of the diocese on
account of the bad weather, which had imperilled the harvest
and thereby prevented clergy and people from going far
from home, and that he had accepted a composition from
the other archdeaconries in lieu of the customary daily
procurations. This the archdeacon and his associates prayed
him to do in the present case, and, finding that he was
prepared to listen to them, offered him a twentieth from the
benefices of the archdeaconry by way of a subsidy, which he
accepted. To safeguard his rights, however, in an arch-
deaconry over which his control, in the lifetime of the
archdeacon, was little more than nominal, the archbishop
made a formal assertion of his jurisdiction as diocesan and
visitor, and, referring to the time-honoured agreement
between the archbishops and the archdeacons of Richmond,
declared that he had the right of visiting and receiving
procurations from this archdeaconry, as often as he visited
the rest of the diocese. He then dismissed the clergy and
laity, charging them to lay their depositions before his
commissaries. The information thus obtained discovered
much neglect with regard to the chapel of West Witton, and
an extraordinary state of things at Coverham, where the
parishioners came armed to church, crowded the porch and
quire, quarrelled in service, and did unauthorised legal
business at the church door. No presentations are reported

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from other parts of the archdeaconry. Had Kempe com-
pleted his visitation, he would have been occupied con-
tinuously for four weeks until 22 September, when he was
due at Brigham in the deanery of Coupland. The programme
^indicates that the exempt monasteries would have felt the
burden of his progress heavily, as he proposed to spend a
night and receive procurations in entertainment at the
abbeys of Fountains, Coverham, Jervaulx, St. Agatha,
Egglestone, Cockersand, Furness, Calder, and the priory of
Hornby. He also expected hospitality at the priories of
St. Martin's at Richmond, Conishead, Cartmel, and St. Bees,
over which he had jurisdiction as ordinary. The most
interesting item in his programme relates to 15 September,
when, having concluded his visitation of the deanery of
Amounderness at Kirkham, he intended to spend an idle
day in crossing Morecambe bay to Conishead priory in the
deanery of Furness. The archbishops of York seldom
succeeded in visiting these distant parts of their vast
diocese, and it is much to be regretted that on this occasion
a visitation, of which the opening reports are so promising,
was abandoned so early in its course.

As chancellor of England from 1426 to 1432, and as a
leading statesman during the period which followed his
resignation of the great seal, Kempe had little opportunity
of carrying out a complete visitation of his diocese ; and it
was not until the fifteenth year of his tenure of the see of
York that he managed to make arrangements for carrying
out the long-deferred primary visitation. Meanwhile, on
20 November, 1487, the death of Thomas Langiey, bishop
of Durham, was chosen by him as an appropriate time to
exercise his rights as metropolitan in the vacant see. He
was unable to undertake this task in person, and, had he
done so, it is possible that he might have met with the
resistance so often shewn to his predecessors. He delegated
his office on 10 December, 1437, to his clerk John Marchall
or Marshall, then registrar of the court of York and canon of
Wells, who was himself beneficed in the diocese of Durham as
master of Sherburn hospital. The commissary appears to

146 INTRODUCTION.

have issued his mandate to the prior and convent on 5 January,
1437-8. It was acknowledged and executed with little delay,
and, on coming to Durham on 17 January, he met with no
opposition. Prior Wessyngton, indeed, lodged an objection
to proffering his obedience to the archbishop, on the ground
that his oath of obedience to bishop Langley had included
obedience to the metropolitan, and that he himself, as
ex officio successor of the late bishop during the vacancy of
the see, ought not to be required to do further homage.
This, however, was over-ruled : Wessyngton duly swore
obedience, and the commissary proceeded in his examination
of individual members of the convent. It seems as if the
articles of examination submitted to each were of a somewhat
formal nature ; for, when next day the examination was
finished, Marchall dissolved his visitation at the request of
the prior and convent without publishing the detecta or
delivering verbal injunctions. One of the most interesting
features of the documents connected with this proceeding is
the schedule containing a list of the names of the inmates
of the cathedral priory. Most of these people are mentioned
several times in the Durham Account Rolls, edited for the
Surtees Society by Dr. Fowler, and the study of their career
as there unfolded throws considerable light upon the part
played by the individual religious in the life of his convent.
Towards the end of February, a little more than a month
later, Marchall made a special visitation of the bishop of
-Durham's jurisdiction in Allerton shire at Leake. The brief
detecta from the several parishes, with the commissary's
consequent admonitions, are recorded. The most important
of these concern dilapidations at North Otterington. It was
not, however, till the beginning of 1438-9 that Marchall
began his visitation of the diocese of Durham as a whole.
His programme is marked by that methodical arrangement
and grasp of local geography which are distinguishing
features of the schedules drawn up by Kempe's clerks.
Starting at Durham on 20 January, he proceeded next day
to Chester-] e-Street, and so journeyed round the north-east
corner of the county, following the coast southward as far

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as Great bam. On 27 January he moved inland to Sedgefield,
but returned on the 28th to Egglescliffe. From this point
he went on to Darlington, visited the south-western parishes
at Gainford and Stain drop, and concluded the visitation of
Durham archdeaconry with the parishes of Weardale and
Derwentdale at Auckland on 1 Feb., and Lanchester on
3 Feb. After a week's holiday he began his visitation of
the archdeaconry of Northumberland at Newcastle on
10 February. This occupied only ten days, six only being
employed in visitation. Corbridge, Morpeth, Alnwick and
Bamburgh were the centres chosen in addition to Newcastle,
a day being allotted to Briiikburn priory. Large batches of
parishes were assigned to each centre,, but with a view to
•^geographical convenience. The whole visitation,, which
-forms an unique record in the mediaeval history of the
province, was concluded on 10 February.

On 19 September, 1440, Kempe began his primary
visitation of the whole diocese with a visitation of the dean
and chapter, which produced a long and interesting series of
detecta. These, it is true, cover much the same ground as
other similar detecta; but they add fresh witness to the
conclusions which can be obtained from earlier and later
sources as to the special difficulties and drawbacks of the
life of a chapter of secular canons — the evils of non-
residence, the financial strain of residence, the tendency to
slackness in the performance of service, and the moral
dangers, especially to the inferior clergy, of the want of
restriction in intercourse with the townsfolk. Next day the
archbishop visited St. Sepulchre's chapel 011 the north side
of the minster, and from 22 to 24 September visited the city
churches at three centres, following Bowet's programme to
the letter. At this point, however, Kempe's personal visita-
tion ceased. The reason is not definitely stated ; but, as it
was at this period that the quarrel between the duke of
Gloucester and cardinal Beaufort reached its height, and
Kempe was implicated in Gloucester's headstrong attack
upon the party of his uncle, it is likely that his presence
was needed in London. It was from York house at West-

148 INTRODUCTION.

minster, at any rate, that, on 20 February, 1440-1, be
commissioned the four dignitaries of the church of York,

-his clerks and close friends, and John Marchall, to continue
the work of visitation jointly or separately. With this
mandate he enclosed a bull of Eugenius IV., obtained in the
previous November, which authorised this delegation of
authority.

The commissaries divided their duties systematically,
with the greatest convenience alike to themselves and to
the parishes visited at every centre. Bowet's schedules are
modelled upon the method, simple in theory, but clumsy in
practice, of arranging the parishes in blocks according to
their division into deaneries. Thus the clergy and lay-folk
of Bads worth were summoned before Bowet at Doncaster :

_Kernpe's commissaries summoned them to their natural
local centre at Pontefract, regardless of their artificial
position in Doncaster deanery. This, if it took more
forethought in arrangement, promoted expedition in visita-
tion and prevented the awkward crowding of parishes at
inappropriate centres which is a feature of portions of
Bowet's programmes. The groups were so planned as to
justify the requirement of daily procurations of 100s. Half
this sum was required in the case of small groups and of
certain monasteries, while nunneries were excused procura--
tions. William Felter, the dean of York, beginning on
20 March, 1440-1,, at St. Mary's abbey, visited the deaneries
of Ainsty and Pontefract, travelling south-westward to Leeds
and Pontefract, and returning by Selby. He reached York
in time for Palm Sunday (9 April), and, setting out again at
the end of the Easter octave, began to visit Doncaster
deanery at Barnsley on 24 April. His work was concluded
with a visitation of the spirituality of Snaith on 2 May : he
slept that night at Selby and probably returned to York
next day.

On 9 May two of his fellow commissaries, John Kexby,
chancellor of York, and John Marchall, opened the visitation
of Nottingham archdeaconry at Blyth. Their route did not
differ very materially from that taken by Bowet in 1409,

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but they effected in twenty- three days a prog-ram me which
he had fulfilled in twenty-five. Their visitation ended at
Wallingwells on 31 May, the Wednesday before Whitsunday.
On Monday, 19 June, at Dunningtoii, close to York, they
began to visit the archdeaconry of Cleveland, with which
they combined the spiritualities of Allerton and Allerton-
shire. Over this they spent sixteen days as compared with
the leisurely twenty-seven days allotted by Bowet. On
5 July they were at Malton, on their way home. Ten days
later, on 15 July, they proceeded to complete the visitation
of York archdeaconry at Otley. The deanery of Craven had
been left unvisited by Felter, and this they visited from
16 to 19 July.

The archdeaconry of East Riding, to which Bowet had

jlevoted special patience and thoroughness, was left to the
summer of 1442. On 11 May, the morrow of the Ascension,
Felter and Marchall began to visit the deanery of Buckrose
at Westow. Following the obvious route to Scarborough
and then southward to Bridlington, they turned westwards
on 17 May from Burton Agnes to Warter priory, and came
back to York on the night of the 18th for Whitsuntide.
On Saturday after Trinity Sunday they went to Wilberfoss,
and, visiting part of Har thill deanery on the way, finished
their work in Dickering deanery at Lowthorpe on 5 June.
The next five days were spent in Holderness. On 11 June
they were at Hull, 011 12 June at North Ferriby, and from
the loth to the 15th at Beverley, visiting the provostry and
the minster. The details of their visitation of the minster
remain in full, with some brief detecta and an interesting
list of the canons and other clergy of the church. On the
16th and 17th they completed the deanery of HarthilL, when
one of them appears to have gone for two days to carry out
a somewhat inadequately planned visitation of the spirituality
of How den. Their twenty -four days in the archdeaconry
form some contrast to Bowet's forty -four, and their pro-
ceedings may have been more perfunctory. The clever

- planning, however, of the Whitsuntide interval, and the
extreme neatness with which the ground was covered so as

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to avoid two journeys over the same route, reflect great
credit on their arrangements ; and the archdeaconry itself
must have felt the serious burden of the financial side of the
visitation far less than in the case of Bowet's protracted
stay.

Finally,, in the late summer of 1442, Kempe himself
arranged to visit the archdeaconry of Richmond, which was
at this time vacant by the death, as seems certain, of Henry
Bowet, the near kinsman whom archbishop Bowet, with a
generosity unparalleled even in an age when almost every
prelate reserved some of his best rewards for one of his
young relations, had loaded with preferment. The almost
equally favoured, and certainly more able Thomas Kempe, -
succeeded him in November 1442. The year is not mentioned
in the schedule of this visitation, the mandate for which
was not copied into the register, and the dates are given in
a somewhat insufficient form. That the year, however, with
which the dates agree was 1442 is quite clear from the fact
that the churches appropriated to the archdeacon of Rich-
mond, which Kempe had properly omitted from his
programme in 1428, were now included as being in the
archbishop's hands with the rest of the archdeaconry. The
visitation was divided into two parts, beginning on a
Saturday, presumably 25 August. Starting at West Tan-
field, and visiting the deaneries of Catterick and Richmond
together for six days, the archbishop came south to Borough-
bridge deanery on 3 and 4 September, and concluded his
visitation east of the moors at Ripon on the 6th. Here he
probably stayed for his September ordination. On the 15th,
the morrow of Holy Cross day, he began west of the moors
at Preston with the deanery of Amounderness. Kendal and
Lonsdale deaneries were taken together on the 18th, 19th,
and 20th, and then the archbishop proceeded into JTurness.
After concluding this part of the visitation at Dalton on
25 September, he waited for nearly a month, postponing the
visitation of Coupland deanery to the four days from 19 to
22 October. It is of course not certain whether he actually
carried out these plans. So far as the planning and order of

the centres goes, the improvement upon the programme of
1428 is very noticeable, and, owing to greater economy in
time and place, the number of days occupied was only
twenty-four as compared with thirty.

If the details of these visitations are somewhat barren,
they have their value as shewing in a very complete form
the general process of a diocesan visitation in the middle
ages. The lists of churches and vicarages, although a few
omissions occur here and there, afford the most complete
contemporary catalogue of the benefices in the mediaeval
diocese of York. They do not include, however, those which
were in the peculiars of the chapters of York, Southwell,^
and Eipon : over these the archbishop had no jurisdiction as
visitor. It may be claimed that the visitations of Eichmond
archdeaconry in 1428 and of the diocese of Durham in
1437-8 and 1438-9 are records of special importance in view
of the infrequent exercise of visitatorial rights by the arch-
bishop in both districts. And lastly, the various mandates
of visitation supply a comparative study in the composition
of this type of document which cannot fail to be without
interest to students of the formal aspect of the contents of
episcopal registers. In addition to such illustration and
comment as has seemed advisable in the notes, an attempt
has been made in an appendix to give a more complete
account than has hitherto existed of some of the persons
whose names occur incidentally in the text.

The editor desires to record his obligations to the arch-
bishop of York's registrar, Mr. A. V. Hudson, for affording
him ready access to the registers in which the accompanying
documents are contained. He is also indebted to Mr. William
Brown for advice and help.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS,
i.

EXTRACTS PROM THE REGISTER OE
ARCHBISHOP BOWET, VOL. I.

[f. 82 d.] 1. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS FACIENDE IN
CIUITATE EBOR'.

[Notice of visitation of the city of York (12 March 1408-9).]

Henricus, etc., dilecto filio decano nostro Christiaiiitatis
ciuitatis nostre Ebor'. Assumpte solicitudinis pastoralis
officium circa ea cernimus precipue exercendum, que sinceram
informacionem commissi nobis gregis salubriter respiciunt,
in quibus meritum nostrum apud Altissimum augere con-
fidimus, dum creditum nobis taleiitum spiritual! lucro
exponimus, eiusque fimbrias nitimur ad subditorum salutem
pro viribus decla-rare. Quia igitur cleruin et populum
ciuitatis nostre Ebor', ad roboracionem virtutuin, morum
reformacionem ac viciorum extirpacionem, intendimus per
Dei graciam, prout nostro iucumbit officio, paternis
affectibus visitare ; tibi mandamus firmiter iniungentes
qua tin us omnes et singulos rectores, vicarios et capellanos
ecclesiarum parochialium et capellarum dicte ciuitatis, et
alios capellanos in eisdem ministrantes, ceterosque viros
ecclesiasticos, religiosos exemptos et 11011 exemptos, et alios
quoscumque ecclesias appropriatas habere pretendentes,
perpetuasque cantarias, capellas siue oratoria optinentes,
iieciioii de singulis parochiis ecclesiarum dicte nostre ciuitatis
quibuscumque, et aliis infrascriptis nostre jurisdiccioiiis,"*
tres vel quatuor viros fidedignos, secundum magnituclinein
vel paruitatem parocliiarum ipsaruni, cites seu citari facias
peremptorie, teque tenore presencium citamus, quod coiii-

* Lay represeutatives wore summoned also, as appears in the schedule below,
from the parishes the churches of which were within the liberty of the dean
and chapter.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 153

pareant et compareas coram nobis, seu commissariis nostris
si nos impediri contigerit, diebus, horis et locis in cedula
preseiitibus annexa pleiiius distinctis, visitacionem nostram
ordinariam huiusmodi huniiliter et deuote admissuri, exami-
naciones et correcciones debitas nostraque salubria monita,
iniuiicciones et decreta canonice snbituri ; predicti videlicet
rectores, vicarij, et capellani beneficiati quicuinque litteras
institucionurn et inducciouuiu et titulos beneficiorum
suorum quos se habere pretendunt in eisdem^ necnon ipsi
et capellani predicti litteras ordinum suorum, ecclesias vero
sibi appropriatas habere pretendeiites litteras appropria-
cionuin et aliud si quod habeant speciale super appropriacione
huiusinodi, illi vero qui cantarias perpetuas, capellas seu
oratoria se habere pretendunt canonicum si quod habeant
super fundacione et ordinacione cantariarum huiusrnodi ac
in capellis seu oratoriis predictis celebracione, pro terinino
perernptorio exhibituri, proposituri et osteiisuri cum effectu,
ac veras copias eorundem,, vt facilius expediri valeant, penes
registrariuui nostrum dimissuri, i'acturi vlterius et recepturi
quod premissorum qualitas et iiatura exiguiit et requirunt,
prouiso quod laici huiusmodi euocandi sint veridici, bone
fame et opinionis illese, qui super consuetis visitacionuni
articulis plus nouerint efc ausi fuerint dicere veritatem, sicut
caiionicam effug-ere volueritis vlcionem. Iiihibemus eciam
tibi, et per te omnibus et singulis quorum^" interest, aut
quibus ius in hac parte exigit inhiberi, inhiberi volumus et
mandamus ne tu nee illi, pendente visitacioiie iiostra
huiusmodi, quicquam in ipsius visitacioiiis nostre preiudicium
attemptes vel attemptent, facias aut faciaiit aliqualiter
attemptari. Et que in premissisfeceris, nos seu commissaries
nostros, diebus et locis predictis in dicta cedula specificatis,
per litteras tuas patentes, harum seriem iiominaque et
cog-nomina omnium et singulorum rectorum, vicariorum et
capellanorum ecclesiarum parochialium et capellarum dicte
ciuitatis, et aliorum capellanorum ceterorumque virorum
ecclesiasticorum, relig'iosorum exemptorum et 11011 exemp-
torum, et aliorum ecclesias appropriatas habere [f. 83]
pretendeiicium tociusque cleri ac virorum fidedio-norum
citandorum huiusmodi in quadam separata cedula tuo
certificatorio amieeteiida conscripta contiiieiites, distincte
certifices et aperte. Data in castro nostro de Cawod''
duodecimo die meiisis Marcij, anno Domini millesimo
quadring'eiitesimo octauo, et nostre translacionis anno
secundo.

* .quorum repeated in original.

154 VISli'ATIOti DOCUMENTS.

[Schedule annexed to the preceding notice, with detailed
programme of visitation.']

[1st day (11 May 1409) : St. Margaret's, Walmgate.]
Venerabilis in Christo pater ac dominus, dominus Henricus,
Dei gracia archiepiscopus supradictus, die Sabbati, videlicet
vndecimo die Maij proxime future post datam suprascriptam,
in ecclesia sancte Margarete in Walmegate, ciuitatis sue
Ebor', fauente Altissimo, visitabit eaiidem., iiecnon ecclesias
subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiarn parochialem sancti Nicholai
in Walmegate, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Edwardi,
ecclesiam parochialem sancti Petri,* ecclesiam parochialem
Omnium Sanctorum in Fisshergate, ecclesiam parochialem
sancte Elene,f ecclesiam parochialem sancti Georgij, eccle-
siam parochialem sancti Dionisij in Walmegate, ecclesiam
parochialem sancte Crucis in Fossegate, ecclesiam paro-
chialem sancti Saluatoris, ecclesiam Omnium Sanctorum in
Maresco,J ecclesiam sancti Cuthberti, ecclesiam sancte Elene
in Aldewark,§ ecclesiam sancte Trinitatis in Guthrumgate,
ecclesiam sancte Trinitatis in curia Regis, necnon clerum et
populum earundem ac populum ecclesie parochialis sancti
Laurencij.||

[2d day (13 May) : All Saints, Pavement.~\ Die Lune
vero, xiijmo die dicti mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in
ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum super pauimentum ciuitatis
predicte, fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem, necnon eccle-
sias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam parochialem sancti
Sampsonis,H ecclesiam sancte Elene in Stayngate, ecclesiam
sancti Wilfridi, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Olaui, ecclesiam
sancti Petri paruam, ecclesiam beate Marie in Castelgate,
necnon clerum et populum earundem, ac populum ecclesiarum
parochialium,** videlicet ecclesie sancti Andree, ecclesie sancti
Martini in Conyngstrete, ecclesie sancti Michaelis de Belfrey,
ecclesie sancti Mauricij, ecclesie sancti Johannis in Hunde-
gate, ecclesie beate Marie in Liarthorp', ecclesie sancti
Johannis del Pyk, ecclesie sancti Michaelis de Berifrido.ft

* I.e., St. Peter-le- Willows. f In Fishergate.

J I.e., All Saints, Peaseholme.

§ St. Helen's on the Walls, also known as St. Helen's in Werkedyke.

H The parish church was a peculiar of the dean and chapter.

i[ This church, which was appropriated to the vicars choral, was usually
reckoned as a peculiar (Lawton, Collections, 2d ed., 1842, pp. 2, 35).

** Belonging to the peculiar of the dean and chapter. St. Maurice's was
appropriated to the prebendary of Fenton.

tt Sic. This was interlined as an afterthought, but the church has already
been mentioned.

Visit ATIO& DOCUMENTS. 155

[3d day (14 May) : St. Martin's, Micklegate.] Die Martis
vero, xiiij die dicti mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in
ecclesia parochial! sancti Martini in Mikelgate, ciuitatis
predicte, fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesias
subscriptas, videlicet, ecclesiain sancti Michaelis ad pontem
Vse, ecclesiain Omnium Sanctorum in Northstrete, ecclesiam
sancti Gregorij, ecclesiam sancti Nicholai in Mikelgate,
ecclesiain beate Marie veterem, ecclesiain sancti Clementis,
capellam super pontem Vse, ecclesiain parochialein de
Popil ton',* necnon clerum et populum eamndem ac populum
ecclesie sancti Johannis ad pontem Vse.

2. PRIMA PREMUNICIO PRO VJSITACIONE ARCHI-
DIACONATUS EBOR'.f

[Notice of visitation of York archdeaconry, 15 March

1408-9.]

Henricus, etc., dilecto in Christo filio arcbidiacono nostro
Ebor' vel eius officiali, salutem, graciam et beiiediccionem.
Pastoralis officij cura nobis licet immerito comniissa nos
excitat propeiisius et inducit vfc iuxta concessi nobis regi-
minis officium animarum subditorum nostrorum commodo
et saluti iugi, quantum nobis ex alto concessum fuerit,
solicitudinis studio intendamus. Propterea clerum et
populum archidiaconatus nostri Ebor' ad roboracionem
virtutum, morum reformacionein et extirpacionem viciorum
intendimus de proximo, diuina fauente clemencia, nostra
auctoritate ordinaria visitare. Vobis igitur in virtute
obedieiicie firmiter iniungeiido mandamus quatinus omnes et
singulos rectores, vicarios ac viros beneficiatos et capellanos
ecclesiarum parochialiuni et capellarum dicti archidiaconatus,
et alios capellanos et clericos in eisdem qualitercumque
ministrantes, ceterosque viros ecclesiasticos, religiosos
exemptos et non exemptos, et alios quoscumque ecclesias
appropriatas se habere pretendentes, seu decimas, porciones
vel pensiones in alienis parochiis aut ecclesiis contra ius

* Poppleton was a chapel of St. Mary's Bishophill junior, which, like
St. John's at Ousebridge end (now called St. John's, Micklegate), was in the
peculiar of the dean and chapter. The parish also included the chapelry of
Copmarithorpe.

t The text of this notice is closely allied to that of the previous notice
issued to the dean of the Christianity of York. It is sufficiently divergent,
however, to be printed in full. The form here employed is used in subsequent
notices of a similar kind, with slight variations which are not of sufficient
importance to be recorded, and only notices which exhibit important variations
to suit special circumstances will be printed in full hereafter.

156 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

commune in dicto archidiaconatuqualitercumque percipientes,
aut perpetuas cantarias, capellas aut oratoria obtinentes,
neciion de singalis villis et hamelectis parochiarum quarum-
libet tres, quatuor vel sex viros fidedignos, secundum
niagnitudinem et paruitatem cuiusuis parochie, citetis seu
citari faciatis peremptorie, vos eciam tenore presencium
pereinptorie [f. 83 d.] citamus, quatinus compareatis et
compareant tempestiue, diebus, horis et locis in cedula
presentibus aniiexa plenius specificatis, corarn nobis, vel
commissariis nostris si nos impediri contigerit, visitacionem
nostram ordinariam examinacioiiesque et correcciones debitas
nostraque sulubria monita et iniungenda canonice recepturi
et humiliter subituri, canonicain obedienciam nobis seu
commissariis nostris huiusmodi in forma iuris prestituri;
predicti videlicet rectores et vicarij ac viri beneficiati litteras
institucionum et titulos quos in suis beneficiis se habere
pretendunt, necnoii ipsi et capellani de quibus premittitur
litteras ordinum suorum, et com mend aticias si de diocesibus
fuerint alienis, exliibituri, ecclesias vero appropriatas se
habere pretendentes, seu in alienis parochiis vel ecclesiis
pensiones, porciones seu decimas parciales contra ius com-
mune percipientes, litteras appropriacionum et aliud si quod
habeant speciale super appropriacione huiusmodi, ac porcione,
pensione seu decimarum parcialium percepcione, illi vero qui
cantarias perpetuas, capellas seu oratoria se habere pre-
tendunt canonic am si quod habent super fundacione et
ordinacione cantariarum huiusmodi ac in capellis seu oratoriis
antedictis celebracione, pro termino peremptorio exhibituri,
proposituri et ostensuri cum effectu, ipsarumque copias, vt
facilius expediri valeant, penes nos dimittentes, facturi
vlterius et recepturi iuxta naturam et qualitatem premissoruni
quod iusticia suadebit, alioquiii proposituri et ostensuri quare
ad premissa uullatenus teneaiitur. Deiiuncietis insuper seu
denunciari faciatis omnibus supradictis quod, siue dictis
diebus venerint siue 11011, procedetur prout de iure fuerit
procedeiidum, proviso quod laici euocandi siiit veridici,
bone opinionis et fame, et qui super consuetis visitacionis
articulis plus sciueriiit et ausi f ueriiit dicere veritatem, sicut
canonicam effugere volueritis vlcionem. Vobis insuper
tenore presencium iiihibemus lie a die recepcioiiis presen-
cium, peiideiite iiegocio huiusmodi visitacionis nostre,
quicquarn quod in dicte visitacionis preiudicium cedere
valeat attemptetis seu faciatis per vestros commissarios
aliqualiter attemptari. Et nos seu dictos commissarios
nostros de die recepcioiiis presencium et de omni eo quod

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 157

feceritis in premissis, diebus et locis antedictis in huiusmodi
cedula specificatis per vestras litteras patentes, ha rum seriem
nominaque et cognomina omnium et singnlorum citandorum
huiusmodi in quadam separata cedula vestro certificatorio
aiinectenda conscripta continent es, distincte et aperte certi-
ficetis, omnibus et singulis decanis archidiaconatus nostri
predicti firmiter iniungendo quod in visitacione sing-ulorum
decanatuum, earn continuacione et prorogacione dierum
sequencium, per nos facienda quilibet videlicet intersit,
facturus et subiturus quod sibi decreuerimus fore canonice
iniuiigendum. Data in castro nostro de Cawod' xv° die
mensis Marcij, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo
octauo, et nostre translacionis anno secuiido.

[Schedule with details of visitation^]

[1st day (17 May 1409) : Aberford.] Venerabilis in
Christo pater ac dominus, dominus Henricus, Dei gracia
archiepiscopus supradictus, die Veneris in crastino Ascen-
sionis dominice, videlicet xvij die mensis Maij proxime
future post datam supradictam, in ecclesia parochiali de
Aberford',"* sue diocesis, fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam in eadem, ecclesiam de Garford', ecclesiam
de Kypax, ecclesiam de Ledesham, ecclesiam de Thornour,
ecclesiam de Berwyk.

[2fZ day (18 May) : SpofforthJ] Die Sabbati vero, videlicet
xviij die mensis Maij extunc proxime sequenti, idem vene-
rabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali de Spofford',,t fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eandem uecrioii ecclesiam de Weston',J
vicariam in eadem, ecclesiam de Foiston%§ vicariam in
eadem, ecclesiam de Parniall', vicariam in eadem.

[3d day (19 May) : Kirkstall abbey. ,] Die dominica,
videlicet xix die Maij, venerabilis pater supradictus erit
apud monasterium de KyrkestaH',|| et ibidem perhendinabit

* Beginning of the visitation of the deanery of Ainsty. Six parishes
visited: five in Skyrack wapentake, Ledsham in Bark ston Ash. The vicarage
of Ledsham, ordained long before this date, is not noted: the church was
appropriated to Pontefract priory. Aberford was appropriated to Oriel college.
Oxford.

t Pour parishes visited : all in Claro wapentake.

I App. to the dean and chapter of York.

§ Fewston. App. to the minister and brethren of St. Robert's, Knares-
borongh, rectors also of Pannal.

|| The notice, demanding procuration in victuals from this exempt house, is
printed below, p. 165.

158 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

per totum ilium diem ; quern procurabunt ibi abbas et
conuentus in victualibus racione primi aduentus sui.

[4th day (20 May) : Tadcaster.] Die Lune, videlicet
vicesimo die eiusdem mensis, venerabilis pater supradictus
in ecclesia parochiali de Tadcastr',* fauente Altissimo,
visitabit eandem necnon vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Ledes,f vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Harwod',j: vieariam
eiusdem.

[5th day (21 May) : Healaugh park priory. ,] Die Martis,
videlicet xxj die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in
prioratu de Helagh,§ fauente Altissimo^ visitabit eundein
necnon ecclesiam de Helao-h,|| vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Wyghall', vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Merston',
ecclesiam de Monkton', ecclesiam de Rufford', ecclesiam de
Colthorp', ecclesiam de Kyrkby Ouerblowers, ecclesiam de
Bilton',f vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Swylyngton',
ecclesiam de Whitkyrk,**" vieariam eiusdem.

[6th day (22 May) : Bolton Percy.] [f. 84.] Die Mercurij,
videlicet xxij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
in ecclesia de Bolton' Percy,tt fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesiam de Hither ', ecclesiam de Acastr',JJ
vieariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Askain Richard',§§ vieariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Askam Brian', vieariam eiusdem, ||||
ecclesiam de Bilburgh, ecclesiam de Dyghton'.

* App. to Salley abbey. Tadcaster is partly in the Ainsty, partly in
Barkston Ash wapentake. Leeds and Harewood are in Skyrack. Tadcaster was
not an ideal centre for visiting these somewhat distant parishes,
t App. to Holy Trinity priory, York.
J App. to Bolton priory.

§ The notice for the visitation of this priory is printed below, p. 166. Of
the ten churches, six in the Ainsty and Cowthorpe, in Claro wapentake, lie
close together. Kirkby Overblow, in Claro, might have been visited more
conveniently at Spofforth ; while Swillington and Whitkirk, in Skyrack, are
nearer Aberford.

|| Healaugh and Wighill were app. to Healaugh park priory.
IT This church, appropriated to the prebendary of Bilton, with its vicarage,
was a peculiar, and was probably included in this notice by mistake.

** App. to the commandery of Newland (under the prior of St. John
of Jerusalem in England).

ft Of seven churches, five in Ainsty ; Eyther in Barkston Ash ; Kirk
Deighton in Claro.
Jt App. to Newbo abbey, Lines.
§§ App. to Nun Monkton priory.

j| || The mention of a vicarage here is interesting, as nothing seems to be
known of its ordination, and institutions to it appear to be wanting. The
church was app. to St. Mary's abbey, York.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 159

[7th day (23 May) : Nunappleton priory.] Die Jouis,
videlicet xxiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in
prioratu'monialium de Apilton',^ fauente Altissimo, visit abit
eundem necnon ecclesiam de Saxton', ecclesiam de Addell',
ecclesiam de Walton', f ecclesiam de Neuton' Kyme, ecclesiam
de Thorp Arche, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Colyngham,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Bardesay, vicariam eiusdem. j

[8th day (24 May) : Drax priory. ,] Die Yeneris, videlicet
xxiiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in prioratu
de DraxJ visitabit eunclem necnon ecclesiam de Drax,§
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Birkyn', ecclesiam de Bray-
ton', || vicariam eiusdem.

[9th day (3 June) : Selby abbey. ~\ Die Lune proximo post
festum sancte Trinitatis, videlicet iij die mensis Junij
proxime tune sequenti^ prefatus venerabilis pater in monas-
terio de Selby,*"* fauente Altissimo, ipsum monasteriuin
visitabit.

Decanatus Pontisfracti.

[Wth day (4 June) : Pontefract.] Die Martis, videlicet
iiij die eiusdem mensis Junij, prefatus venerabilis pater in
ecclesia parochiali Pontisfracti,ft fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wilmerslay^J
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Adlyngflete,§§ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Keryngton',|||| vicariam eiusdem.

* Of seven churches, two (Walton and Thorp Arch) in Ainsty ; two (Saxton
and Newton Kyme) in Barkston Ash ; the remaining three in Skyrack. Nun-
appleton priory is in Ainsty. The arrangement, of parishes is geographically
very awkward; but, as Walton, Thorp Arch, Collingham and Bardsey were all
appropriated to St. Sepulchre's chapel, the convenience of the impropriators
was probably consulted, as their proctors could appear at a single centre near
York, instead of making more than one journe}r to a distance.

t See previous note. No vicarage ordained.

% All three churches in Barkston Ash.

§ App. to Drax priory.

i| App. to Selby abbey.

If The visitation was suspended from 25 May, the day before Whitsunday,
to 2 June, Trinity Sunday, inclusive.

** The spirituality of Selby, locally in Ainsty deanery, was visited separately
at a later date. See p. 177 below. From Selby Bowet proceeded to the visitation
of Pontefract deanery.

ft All four churches in Osgoldcross wapentake. Pontefract church was
app. to Pontefract priory.

IJJ App. to the prioress and convent of Heynings, Lines.
§§ App. to Selby abbey.
|| || App. to the commaudery of Newland.
'

160 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[llth day (5 June] : Wakefield.~] Die Mercurij, videlicet
v die eiusdem men sis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Wakefeld',* fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Crofton', ecclesiam de
Darthyngton',t vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Friston',|
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Emlay, ecclesiam de Warne-
feld',§ vicariam eiusdem.

[12th day (6 June) : Rothwell.] Die Jouis, videlicet vj die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de Koth-
welP,|| fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Thornhill', ecclesiam de Caluerlay,^[
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Bristall', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Batelay, vicariam eiusdem.

Jurisdiccio peculiaris doinini.

\\%th day (7 June) : Otley.~\ Die Veneris, videlicet vij die
eiusdem mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Ofctelay,** fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Lethelay, ecclesiam de Gyselay
cum capellis adiacentibus.

Decanatus de Crauen'.

[I4>th day (8 June) : Bolton priory.] Die Sabbati, vide-
licet viij die eiusdem mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in
prioratu de Bolton' in Craven', ft fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Bolton' in
Craven', :{: J ecclesiam de Adyngham, ecclesiam de Ilklay,§§

* Four churches in Agbrigg; Darrington and Perry Fryston in Osgoldcross.
Wakefield app. to St. Stephen's chapel, Westminster.

i App. to Pontefract priory.

t App. to the vicars choral of York.

§ App. to St. Oswald's priory.

|| All five churches in Agbrigg and Morley. llothwell, Birstal and Batley
were all appropriated to St. Oswald's priory.

IT App. to St. Sepulchre's chapel, York.

** Otley and Guiseley in Skyrack : Leathley in Claro. These churches were
locally in Ainsty deanery; but his manor of Otley formed a good halting-place
for the archbishop on ins way to the deanery of Craven. Otle_y was app. to
St. Sepulchre's chapel, York.

ft Eight churches in Staincliffe : Ilkley in Skyrack.

JJ Bolton-by-Bowland is the only parish church in the deanery of Craven
which can be described as "ecclesia de Bolton." Bolton priory was locally in •
the parish of Skipton, and, although there was an altar for the convenience of
the local lay-folk in the nave of the church, it had not the full status of a parish
church. It looks as if the clerk who drew up the list had confused the two
Boltons. In Tax. P.N. Bolton-by-Bowland is called Bolton in Craven.
§§ App. to Hexham priory.

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vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de Carleton', ecclesiam de
Preston', ecclesiam de Thometon', ecclesiam de Kyrkby,*
vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de Arnecliff, ecclesiam de Ketil-
well'.

[I5th day (9 June) : Visitation of Bolton priory.] Die
dominica, videlicet nono die mensis predicti, prefatus
venerabilis pater in predicto prioratu de Bolton', fauente
Altissimo, ipsum prioratum visitabit canonice.

day (10 June) : Skipton.~\ Die Lune, videlicet
decimo die eiusdem mensis Junij, prefatus venerabilis pater
in ecclesia de Skipton',f fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Gargraue,J vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Broghton', ecclesiam de Marton',
ecclesiam de BracewelP,§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Gysburn',11 vicariam eiusdem [f. 84 d.], ecclesiam de Lynton',
ecclesiam de Brnsall'.

day (11 June) : Bingley.] Die Martis, videlicet
xj die eiusdem mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in ecclesia
de Bynglay,^ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kyghlay, ecclesiam de
Kyldewyk,** vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de Mitton', eccle-
siam de Gygleswyk,ft vicariain eiusdem.

Decanatus Pontisfracti.

[18th day (12 June) : Bradford.] Die Mercurij, videlicet
xij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Bradford' ,1$ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Halifax,§§ vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Birton',|||| vicariam eiusdem.

* Kirby Malham. App. to West Dereham abbey, Norfolk,
t All eight churches in Staincliffe. Skipton was app. to Bolton priory,
t App. to Salley abbey. § App. to Kirkstall abbey.

|| App. to Stainfield priory, Lines.

^[ Bingley in Skyrack ; the remaining four in Staincliffe. The vicarage of

Mitton, app. to Cockersaud abbey, is omitted. Bingley was app. to Drax priory.

The visitation was very badly arranged for Giggles wick and Mitton. Slaidburn,

the most westerly parish in the deanery, was left out of the visitation altogether.

** App. to Bolton priory.

ft App. to Finchale priory, a cell of the cathedral priory of Durham.
XJ All three churches in Agbrigg and Morley. The church of Bradford was
still at this date a presentable rectory with an ordained vicarage : the appropria-
tion of the rectory to the dean and chapter of the college of the Newarke
at Leicester, though it had been impending for some time, was actually not
completed till 1416.

§§ App. to Lewes priory, Sussex.

i||| App. to Sc. Stephen's chapel, Westminster,

M

162 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[I9tk day (13 June) : Dewsbury. ~\ Die Jouis, videlicet
xiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
(sic} Dewesbury,* fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem tiecnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Mirfeld',t vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiamde A Imundbery, ecclesiam de Hodresfeld'4 vicariam
eiusdem.

[20th day (14 June) : St. Oswald's priory.] Die Veneris,
videlicet xiiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in
ecclesia prioratus saiicti Oswald! de NostelP,§ fauente
Altissimo, visitabit ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam
de Normanton', ecclesiam de Methelay, ecclesiam de Ac-
worth', ecclesiam de Castelford', ecclesiam de SandaU',||
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de JFethirston',1 vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hetoii'.

[21st day (15 June) : Visitation of St. Oswald's.']
Sabbati, videlicet xv die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater in prioratu sancti Oswaldi predicto, fauente Altissimo,
ipsum prioratum visitabit canonice.

[22d day (16 June) : Visitation of Monkbretton priory .~\ Die
dominica, videlicet xvj die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater in prioratu de Monkbretton', fauente Altissimo, ipsum
prioratum visitabit tantum, et pernoctabit ibidem.

[23rf day (17 June) : Siltcstone.'] Die Lune, videlicet
xvij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
de Silkeston',ft fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Penyston', ecclesiam de
Dartou', ecclesiam de Holand', ecclesiam de Tankerslay,
ecclesiam de Buston',JJ vicariam eiusdem.

[24th day (18 June) : Rotherham.] Die Martis, videlicet
xviij die eiusdem mensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in

* All four churches in Agbrigg and Morley. Dewsbury was app. to
St. Stephen's chapel, Westminster.

t App. to the prioress and convent of Kirklees.
X App. to St. Oswald's priory.

§ Pour churches in Agbrigg arid Morley : three (Ackworth, Castleford and
Featherstone) in Osgoldcross.

|| App. to St. Stephen's chapel, Westminster.
^[ App. to St. Oswald's priory.

** A cross in the margin. The churches of Woodkirk and Wragby would
probably be included in the visitation of St. Oswald's priory.

ft All six churches in Staincross. Silkstone was app. to Pontefract priory.
U Royston, app. to Monkbretton priory.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 163

ecclesia de Roderham,*' fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiarn de Shefeld',f vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Ecclesfeld', vicariam eiusdem.

[25£/i day (19 June) : Rotherham.~\ Die Mercurij, vide-
licet xix die eiusdem inensis, prefatus venerabilis pater in
ecclesia, de RoderbamJ predicts, fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Rowmerslie,
ecclesiam de Aston', ecclesiam de Herthill', ecclesiam de
Treton', ecclesiam de Wikerslay, ecclesiam de Thribergh,
ecclesiam de Hoton' Robert', ecclesiam de Whiston', eccle-
siam de Todwyk, ecclesiam de Dynyngton', ecclesiam de
Athewyk,§ ecclesiam de Malteby,|| vicariam eiusdem.

[26th day (20 June) : Wath-on-Dearne.] Die Jouis, vide-
licet xx die eiusdem mensis Junij, idem venerabilis pater in
ecclesia de Wath,1f fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon ecclesiam de Derfeld', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Bolton',*"* ecclesiam de Felkyrk,ft vicariam eiusdem.

[27th day (21 June): Doncaster.] Die Yeneris, videlicet
xxj die dicti inensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Doncastre,fJ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Athewyk,§§ ecclesiam de
Soutlikyrkeby,|||| vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Conys-
burgh',^H[ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Barneburgh'.

[28th day (22 June) : Doncaster.] [f . 85.] Die Sabbati,
videlicet xxij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in

* All three churches in Strafforth and Tickhill. Rotherham, app. to Rufford
abbey.

f Sheffield and Ecclesfield, app. to the Charterhouse at Coventry.
J All twelve churches in Strafforlh and Tickhill.

§ Adwick-on-I)earne. The church was appropriated to St. Oswald's priory
and served by secular chaplains : no vicarage was ordained.
|| App. to the prioress arid convent of Arthington.

^ Three churches in Strafforth and Tickhill: Selkirk in Staincross. The
vicarage of Darfield was that of the mediety appropriated to the priory of
St. John of Jerusalem in England.

** ]iolton-on-Dearne, appropriated to Monkbretton priory. The vicarage is
not mentioned.

ft App. to St. Oswald's priory.

£:£ Four churches in Strafforth and Tickhill : South Kirkby in Osgoldcross.
Doncuster was app. to St. Mary's abbey, York.
§§ Adwick-le-Street.
li || App. to St. Oswald's priory.
IT App. to Lewes priory, Sussex.

VL 2

164 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

pn't'aia rcclesia de Doncastre,* fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesia s snnsrriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Burghwalas,
ecclesiam <!<> Hoton Panelist vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam d<-
liro(l<lcs\vortir,+ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Arkesay,
ecclesiam de Melton', § ecclesiam de Warmesworth, ecclesiam
de Campsair, ecclesiam de Baddesworth.5

[29M day (23 June) : Roche abbey. ,] Die dominica, videlicet
vicesimo tercio eiusdem mensis Junij, prefatus venerabilis
pater in moiiasterio de Rupe,|| fauente Altissimo, erit per
totum diem, et eidem procurabitur in victualibus
priini aduentus sui, et pernoctabit ibidem.

[80M day (24 June) : Tickhill.] Die Lime, videlicet xxiiij
die eiusdem mensis, idem venernbilis pater in ecclesia de
Tikhill',11 fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necimn
ecclesiam de Brathewell',** vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Edlyngton', ecclesiam de Sproteburgh', ecclesiam de
Hikleton', ecclesiam de Barneburgh,tf ecclesiam de
SandalP,ii ecclesiam de Barneby,§§ vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Stayiiton', ecclesiam de Canteley,|||| vicariam
eiusdem.

[31s£ day (25 June) : Hatfield.'] Die Martis, videlicet xxv
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Haytfeld',^1^1 visitabit eandem necnon vicarinm eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Braniwyth, ecclesiam de Hymmeswortli',

* Five churches in Strafforth and Tickhill: three (Burghwallu, Campsall
and Badsworth) in Osgoldcross.

f App. to St. Sepulchre's chape), York.

t App. to dean and chapter of York, but of archbishop's collation,
§ Melton-on-the-Hill or High Melton, appropriated to Hampole priory.
No vicarage was ordained.

|| See the memorandum below. |>. 1<>5.

f All ten churdios in St rallorth and Tickhill. The vicarage of Tickhill, the
rectory of which was appropriated to St. Oswald's priory, is not mentioned.
** App. to Lewes priory, Sussex

ft Hamburgh was already provided for in the list of churches visited at
[)oue:ister on '_' 1 .liine. As then« is no mention of Thurnseoe, the parish of
which adjoins 1 1 icklet < >n and Hamburgh, in either list, it. is not unlikely that il
should he sultstitutcd for Hamburgh in one or other of them.
tt Sandal parva or Kirk Sandal.

§§ Harnby on Don, appropriated to the college of Cotterstock, Northants.
Illl App. to Wallin^-wells priory, Nolls.

til Two churches (Hatli.-ld and Kishlake) in StratTorth and Tickhill ; four
(Kirk Bramwith, Hetnsworth, Owston, and Kirk Smeaton) in Osgo-ldcross ;
one (Hemsworth) in Staincross. Armlhorpe. which mi^hl suitably have heeu
visited on the 2-Hli or L\~>th, is not included. Mai Held was app. to Roche abbey.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 165

eeclesiam de Ouston', ecclesiam de Fisshelake,* vicariam
eiusdem, ecclrsiiim de Smeton'.

[f. 80.] 8. LlTTEBA DIRECTA ABBATI ET CONUENTUI DE
KYRKSTALL' RACIONE PRIMI ADUENTUS DOMINI.

[Notices rxnued to exempt houses (Cistercian) in the arch-
deaconry of York (15 March 1408-9).]

Henricus, etc., dilectis filiis abbati et conueiitui de
Kyrkstall', nostre diocesis, salntem, etc. Quia die Dominica,
videlicet decimo 110110 die mensis Maij proxiine futuro, in
visitacionis nostre progressu transituri, inteiidimus ad
dotnum vestram de Kyrkstall' declinare, procuracionem a
vobis racione primi adveutus uostri nobis debitam, ac
hospicium in vestra domo vestris sumptibus recepturi, vos
super hoc teiiore presencium censuimus premunire, vt interim
possitis p:irare oiiinia que incumbunt. Data in castro nostro
de Cawod' xv die mensis Marcij, anno Domini millesimo
ccccmo iioiio,t efc nostre trans lacionis secundo.

Et memorandum quod dictus abbas humiliter efc cum
debita reuerencia admisit dominum, et procurauit eum cum
tota sua familia in esculentis et poculentis racione primi
aduentus in prandio, et eodem die in cena.

IVUIM;. Item eisdein die, loco et anno Domini prescripts
coiisimilis littera directa fuifc abbati et conueiitui de
Kupe.J

SALLAY. Item alia coiisimilis littera directa f uit abbati
et conueiitui de Sallay, qui per procuratorem composuerunt
cum d-miiiio apud iSelby tercio die Julij§ anno predicto
ibidem visibaiite, et pro procuracioiie racione primi aduentus
opposiioruiit c s. et pro dimissione totidem, videlicet c s.

* App. to Durham college, Oxford, a <;oll of the cathedral priory of
Durham.

t Tiiis should he octavo : ilic d:iic is 15 March, 1408-9, not 1409-10.
19 May foil on a Monday in the latter ymr, which was also in Ihc third, not the
scc.oiid, vcar o!' Hou'ct's translation. His pontifical vcars as archhishop are
dale I from 7 Oct. 1 !• )?. Thcso letters were doubtless copied into the register
during I Ml!), which ace units for the error in date hen' and in the notice for the
visitation of He:ihirj;li park below.

X For Sunday, H3 -June : see above.

^ This should hj -Itinij : see above. The archbishop had possibly timed his
visit to S;i\vley for 9 Juno, but to>k two days at Bolton priory instead.

166 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

4. PREMTJlSriCIO PRO VIS1TACIONE PBIORIS ET CONUENTUS DE
HELAGH PARK."*

[Notices of visitation of religious houses in York archdeaconry
(15 March, 1408-9).]

Heuricus, etc., dilectis filiis priori et conuentui de
Helaghpark, nostre diocesis, salutem, etc. Quia intendimus
per Dei graciam vos in capitulo vestro prioratus vestri, ad
recreaciouem animarum vestraruin, moruin reformaciouem,
et viciorum extirpacionem, die Martis, videlicet xxj die
inensis Maij proximo futuro, paternis affectibus visitare,
vobis iiiiungimus et mandamus vosque tenore presencium
peremptorie citamus quatinus vos omnes et singuli dicto die
Martis teinpestiue coram nobis vel commissariis nostris in
domo capitulari dicti prioratus vestri compareatis ac vestram
votiuaui presenciam pretendatis, nostra salubria monita,
correcciones et iniuncta debita et deuota reuerencia
recepturi, ex quibus Altissimns fructum producat placitum,
qui vobis vtinam proficiat, sicut pie cupimus, ad salutem.
Fratres in super vestros viiiuersos iiunc absentes, qui in
visitacionibus eiusdem prioratus debeiit et consueuerant
interesse, faciatis premuniri quod dicto die Martis coram
nobis vel dictis commissariis nostris vna vobiscum compareant
et intersint, cum continuacione dierum subsequeiicium si
necesse fuerit, ad faciendum ea que superius exprimuntur.
Et nos de omul eo quod feceritis in premissis, vna cum
nominibus omnium et singulorum confratrum vestrorum
tarn presencium quarn absencium in scriptis fideliter [f . 86 d.]
redactis, citra dictum diem Martis distincte et aperte
certificetis per litteras vestras patentes harum seriem
continentes. Data in castro nostro de Cawod', xv die mensis
Marcij, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo nono,,t et
nostre translacioiiis anno secundo.

APPELTON'. Item consimilis littera directa fuit priorisse
et conuentui de Nunappeltori'.J

DRAX. Item alia consimilis littera directa fuit priori et
conuentui de Drax.§

* Austin canons. This notice is couched in the terms of the usual common
form, and will be taken as the standard of all similar notices in this series of
documents, save where the variations are so numerous as to demand their being
printed in full.

t Should be octauo : see note on the letter to the abbot and convent
of Kirkstall above.

X Cistercian nuns. For 23 May, according to the programme above.

§ Austin canons. For 24 May.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 167

SELBY. Item alia consimilis directa fuit abbati et
conuentui de Selby.*

BOLTON'. Item alia consimilis emanauit priori et
conuentui de Bolton' in Craven'. f

SANCTI OSWALDI. Item alia cjiisimilis littera emanauit
priori et conuentui sancti Oswaldi de NostelP.J

MONKBKETTON'. Item alia consimilis littera directa fuit
priori et conuentui de MoiikbrettonJ . §

[f. 204 d.] PRIMA PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS ARCHIDIA-

CONATUS NOTYNGHAMIE.

[Notice for the visitation of Nottingham archdeaconry,
following the form for the archdeaconry of York, p. 155 above,
with the date Cawood castle, 15 March, 1408-9. ||]

Henricus, permissione diuina, etc., dilecto in Christo
filio archidiacono nostro Notyiighamie vel eius officiali,
salute in,, gTaciaui et benediccionem. Pastoralis officij cura
nobis licet iiimerito commissa [etc., word for word as in the
similar notice for the archdeaconry of York, p. 155 above,
finishing thus} Propterea, etc., prout registratur in primo
quaterno archidiaconatus Ebor', sub data in castro nostro
de Cavvod' xv die meiisis Marcij, anno Domini millesimo
ccccrao octauo,|| et iiostre translacionis anno secundo.

Decaiiatus de Retford.
[Schedule with details of visitation.}

[1st day (26 June, 1409) : Scrooby.} Yerierabilis in Christo
pater ac dominus, dominus Henricus, Dei gracia archiepis-
copus supradictus, die Mercurij, videlicet xxvj die meiisis
Junij proxime future post datam suprascriptam in
capella de Scroby,! fauente Altissimo, visitabit ecclesias

* Benedictine monks. For 3 June.

f Austin canons. For 9 June ; but see note §, p. 165 above.

t Austin canons. For 15 June.

§ Benedictine (originally Cluniac) monks. For 16 June.

|| The date is copied from the notice for York archdeacon ry. It appears,
however, from the notices issued to the Nottinghamshire religious houses (see
below, p. 174) that the date should be 10 May, 1409.

^[ The cliapel of the archbishop's manor-house. Eight churches in Bassetlavv
wapentake, Notts; llossington in the soko of Doucaster, Yorkshire. Portions
also of the parishes of BIyth and Finningley were in Yorkshire.

166 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

subscriptas, videlicet eccJesiam de Fynynglay, ecclesiam de
Rosyngton, ecclesiam de Misyn',* vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Harworth,t vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Blith,| vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Mathersay, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Claworth, ecclesiam de Litilburgh,§
ecclesiam de Gryngelay,|| vicariam eiusdem.

[2nd day (27 June) : Mattersey priory^] Die . Jonis,
videlicet xxvij die eiusdem mensis Juuij, idem venerabilis
pater in prior atu de Mathersay,^ erit per totum diem,
et procurabuut eidem prior et conuentus in victualibus
racione primi aduentus sui ; et ibidem, fauente Altissimo,
visitabit vicarias subscriptas, videlicet vicariam de
Rettford',** vicariam de Sutton,'ff vicariam de Hayton',
vicariam de Clareburgh'.

[3d day (28 June) : West Retford.] Die Veneris, videlicet
xxviij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
de Westretford'^tt visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de
Whetelay,§§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Misterton',||||
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam, de Walkryngham,^ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Sawneby, ecclesiam de Burton',***
ecclesiam de Stretton', ecclesiam de Southleuerton'.

[4th day (29 June) : Welbeck abbey^] Die Sabbati,
videlicet penultimo die eiusdem mensis Junij in festo
apostolorum Petri et Pauli, idem venerabilis pater erit in
monasterio de Welbekftt per totum diem, et abbas et
conuentus dicti monasterij procurabunt eidem in victualibus
[etc., ut supra.]

* Missou and Mattersey churches were app. to Mattersey prior.
f App. to Westminster abbey.

| App. to Blyth priory.

§ Littleborough was appropriated to the abbot and convent of Welbeck, but
no vicarage was ordained.

|| App. to Worksop priory.
IF See the archbishop's notice, printed on p. 174 below.

* East Retford. These four vicarages, all in Bassetlavv wapentake, were
ordained in churches appropriated to St. Sepulchre's chapel at York. Cf. note *,
p. 159 above. The vicarage of Everton is not mentioned.

ft Sutton-on-Lound.

jj All eight churches in Bassetlaw. The vicarage of South Leverton, of
which the dean of Lincoln was rector, is not mentioned.
§§ North Wheatley, app. to Westminster abbey.
IHI App. to dean and chapter of York.
HIT App. to Worksop priory.

* West Burton, appropriated to Newstead priory : no vicarage,
ttt See memorandum of notice, p. 174 below.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 169

[5th day (30 June) : Rufford alley.] Die dominico (sic),
videlicet vltimo die eiusdem inensis Junij idem venerabilis
pater erit in monasterio de Rufford'* per totum diem ; et
abbas et conuentus procurabunt eidem racione primi
aduentus sui.

[6th day (1 July) : Warsop.] Die Lune, videlicet primo
die men sis Julij, idem venerabilis pater, fauente Altissimo,
in ecclesia de Warsop'f visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam
de Walesby,J vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kyrketon',
ecclesiam de Carleton',§ ecclesiam de Wirkesop',|| vicariam
eiusdein, ecclesiam de Cokenay,^[ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Edynstow,** vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Billesthorp',
ecclesiam de Bughton'.

[7th day (2 July) : Tuxford.] Die Martis, videlicet
secundo die eiusdem men sis, idem venerabilis pater in
ecclesia de Tuxford'tt visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de
Tereswell', ecclesiam de Grofe, ecclesiam de Hedon',
ecclesiam de Estmarkham,^ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Westmarkham, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Babworth,
ecclesiam de Ordesale, ecclesiam de Gamelstoii', ecclesiam de
Elkesley,§§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Egmanton*.

Decanatus de Newark'.

[8th day (3 July) : Weston-in-tke-Clay .] Die Mercurij,
videlicet tercio die eiusdem inensis, idem venerabilis pater
in ecclesia de Weston',|||| fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon ecclesiam de Laxton',^H[ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Knesale, ecclesiam de Eykeryng', ecclesiam de Fled burgh,
ecclesiam de JTormanton',*** vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de

* See memorandum of notice, p. 174 below,
f All nine churches in Bassetlaw.
J App. to Westminster abbey.
§ Carlton in Lindrick.
I! App. to Worksop priory.
1 App. to Welbeck abbey.
** App. to dean and chapter of Lincoln.

ft All eleven churches in Bassetlaw. The vicarage of Egmanton, appropri-
ated to Newstead priory, is not mentioned.

JX East Mark ham and West Markham, app. to Westminster abbey.
§§ App. to Welbeck abbey.

1|1| Six churches in Thurgarton wapentake ; two (L'txton and Eikring) in
Bassetlaw. Part of the parish of Kuee.sall is also in Bassetlaw.
^[^F At this time a presentable rectory, with a vicarage ordained.
*** Normanton-ou-Trent, app. to Worksop priory.

170 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Marneham, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiani de Button',* vicariam
eiusdem.

[f. 205.] [9th day (4 July] : New ark-on- Trent.] Die
Jouis, videlicet quarto die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater in in (sic) ecclesia de Newark, f visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Cromwell', ecclesiam de
Muskham, J vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam deKelme, ecclesiam
de Aueram, ecclesiam de Farnedon',§ vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Thornhaw,|| vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Clifton',^} ecclesiam de Hokirton', ecclesiam de Scarle,**
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Barnel)y,tt vicariam eiusdem.

[10th day (5 July) : Newark.] Die "Veneris, videlicet
quinto die dicti naensis Julij, idem venerabilis pater in
ecjlesia de Newark JJ predicta, fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiani de Northcolynghain,
ecclesiam de Southcolyngham, ecclesiam de Wyn thorp',
ecclesiam de Howton',§§ ecclesiam de Cotom', ecclesiam de
Staunton', ecclesiam de Kyi uyngton', ecclesiam de Shelton',
ecclesiam de Sibthorp',|| || ecclesiam de Eyleston'^Hf ecclesiam.
de Thorp', ecclesiam de Stoke,*** vicariam eiusdem.

[llth day (6 July) : Visitation of Thurgarton priory.]
Die Sabbati, videlicet vj die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater erit in prioratu de Thurgarton,ttt et? fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eundem.

* Sutton-on-Trent, app. to Worksop priory.

t Six churches in Newark waperitake : five (Cromwell, North Muskham,
Kelhara, Averhara, and Hockerton) in Thurgarton. Newark church was app.
to St. Katherine's priory, Lincoln.

J North Muskham. The archbishop's ordinary jurisdiction extended only
to a mediety of this church, appropriated to Shelford priory. The other
mediety was appropriated to a prebend in Southwell and was within the peculiar
jurisdiction of that chapter.

§ App. to a prebend in Lincoln minster.
|| Thorney, app. to the prioress and convent of Brodholme.
If North Cliflon, appropriated to a prebend in Lincoln. The vicarage is not
mentioned.

!* South Scarle, also appropriated to a prebend in Lincoln,
ft Baruby-in-the- Willows, app. to the college of Southwell.
Jt All twelve churches in Newark wapentake. The vicarage of Gotham, app.
to Thurgarton priory, is not mentioned.
§§ Hawton.

Illl A college of chantry priests, of which the warden had the cure of souls of
the parish : no vicarage ordained.
Iff Elston.

* East Stoke or Stoke by Newark, appropriated to a prebend, and later to
the office of chancellor, in Lincoln.

ftt See notice printed below, p. 174.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 171

\_l2thday (7 July) : Thuryar ton priori/.] Die doinmica, in
festo translacionis sancti Thome martiris, videlicet septimo
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater erit in prioratu
de Thurgarton' predicta, et corriget ibidem comperta.

Decanatus de Byngham.

[13th day (8 July) : Bingham.] Die Lime, videlicet viij
die eiusdem meiisis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Byngham* visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam deKneueton,t
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hokesworth, ecclesiam de
FiyntliauijJ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Screton',
ecclesiam de Orstoii', ecclesiam de Saxindale.

[14sth day (9 July) : Bingham.] Die Martis, videlicet
nono die eiusdem mensis Julij, idem venerabilis pater in
ecclesia de Byngham§ predicta, fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Langar,
ecclesiam de Radcliff super Trent, ecclesiam de Estbrige-
ford', ecclesiam de Shelford', ecclesiam de Whatton',
ecclwsiam de Colston' basset, || vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Broghtoii'.^l

[1 5th day (10 July) : Visitation of Shelf or d prior yJ] Die
Mercurij, videlicet x die eiasdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater erit in prioratu de Shelford', et** visitabit eundem.

[16£/i day (11 July) : Ruddington.] Die Jouis, videlicet
xj die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Rodyngtoii',ft fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Wyloghby, ecclesiam de Widrnerpole, ecclesiam
de Thorp' in glebis, ecclesiam de Rempston', ecclesiam de
CortiyngstokjJ} ecclesiam de Leek,§§ ecclesiam de Holme. ||||

* All seven churches in Bingham wapentake. The vicarage of Orston, the
rectory of which was appropriated to the common of the dean and chapter of
Lincoln, is not mentioned.

f App. to Newbo abbey, Lines.
I App. to Wei beck abbey.

§ All seven churches in Bingham Avapentake. The vicarage of Whatton,
the rectory of which was appropriated to Welbeck abbey, is not mentioned.
|| App. to Lauiid priory, Leices.
^ Upper Broughton or Broughton Sulney.
** See memorandum of notice, p. 174 below.

ft Six churches in liushcliffe wapentake : Holme Pierrepont in Uingham.
The vicarage of Buddington, app. to Durham college, Oxford, not mentioned.
tJ Costock.

§§ West Leake, of which East Leake was a chapelry.
Illl Holme Pierrepont.

172 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[172/1. day (12 July) : Ruddington.] Die Veneris, videlicet
xij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in in (sic)
ecclesia de Rodyngton'* predicta, fauente Altissimo, visitabit
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiarn de Stanford', f
ecclesiam de Normaaton*,t ecclesiain§ de Button' et
Bonyngfcon', ecclesiam de Torlaston',|| ecclesiam de Wysow,^f
ecclesiam de Outhorp',** ecclesiam de Tytheby, ecclesiam de
Hiklyng', ecclesiam de Kynalton', ecclesiam de Keworth'.

\_lSth day (13 July) : Gotham.] Die Sabbati, videlicet
xiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Grothamft visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de Radcliff
super Sor', ecclesiam de Cotgraue, ecclesiam de Barton', JJ
ecclesiam de Clifton', ecclesiam de Wilford', ecclesiam de
Brigeford'.§§

[19th day (14 July) : Lenton priory.'] Die dominica,
videlicet xiiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater erit
cum priore de Lenton' |||| et pernoctabit apud Notynghain.

Decanatus de Notyngham.

[f . 205 d.] [20M day (15 July) : St. Mary's, Nottingham.]
Die Lune, videlicet xv die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater in ecclesia beate Marie Notynghamie,W fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam beati Petri
Nofcynghamie, ecclesiam sancti Nicholai eiusdem ville,
ecclesiam de Keroolston', ecclesiam de Plumptre, ecclesiam

* Six churches ia Rushcliffe : five (Tollerton, Owtliorpe, Tithby, Hickling,
and Kiaoultou) iu Biiigliam. The vicarages of Wysall, app. to Worksop priory,
and Kinoultou, app. to the archbishop, not mentioned,
f Stanford on Soar.
j Normanton on Soar.

§ Sic. Tiie two churches were distinct benefices, viz., St. Anne's, Sutton on
Soar, and St. Michael's, Bonniugton.
|| Tollerton.
IT Wysall.

** Appropriated to Thurgarton priory : no vicarage ordained. The same
appears to apply to Tithby.

ff Six churches in Rushcliffe : Cotgrave in Bingham. Part of West Bridg-
ford is also in Bingham.
tt Barton-in-Fabis.
§§ West Bridgford.

Illl See memorandum of notice, p. 174 below.

TIT Apart from the three Nottingham churches, the churches visited on this
day belong to Bingham dsanery, four (Carcolston, Elton, Granby, and Plum-
tree) iu Bingham wapentake, and one (Bunny) in Rushcliffe. Part of
Plumtree parish is also in Rusli^ltffe. The vicarages of St. Mary's, Nottingham,
app. to Lanton priory, of Carcolston, app. to Worksap priory, and Granby, apn.
to Thurgarton priory, are not mentioned.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 173

de Boney,* vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de Granby, ecclesiam
de Elton'.

['21st day (16 July) : Gedfing.'] Die Martis, videlicet xvj
die eiusdem men sis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Gedlyng',f fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Thurgarton', ecclesiam de Colwyk, ecclesiam de
Birton' Jorce,J ecclesiam de Gonalston', ecclesiam de
Houyryng'ham,§ ecclesiam de Lowdham, ecclesiam de
Lamley, ecclesiam de Ebreston',|| ecclesiam de ArnalP.lf

[22d day (17 July) : Greasley.~] Die Mercurij, videlicet
xvij die eiusdem (sic), idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Griselay,** fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Lenton', ecclesiam de Beeston', ecclesiam de
Radford', ecclesiam de Baseford',tt vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Adyngburgh, ecclesiam de Stapilford,Jt
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wollatori', ecclesiam de
Anne slay, §§ ecclesiam de Strellay, ecclesiam de Nuthale,
ecclesiam de Trowell', ecclesiam de Estwayt,|||| ecclesiam de
Selstoii', ecclesiam de Bilburg-h, ecclesiam de Papilwyk,^
ecclesiam de Brokstow, ecclesiam de BulwelP, ecclesiam de
Kymberlay.

[2Sd day (18 July) : Visitation of Newstead priory,, etc.]
Die Jouis, videlicet decinio octauo (sic) eiusdem mensis Julij,
idem venerabilis pater in prioratu de Nouo loco in
Shirwod',*** fauente Altissimo, visitabit eundem necnon

* App. to Ulverscroft priory, Leices.

f Eight churches in Thurgarton wapentake : two (Colwick and Arnold) in
Broxtow. The vicarages of the mediety of Gedliug appropriated to Shelf ord
priory, Thurgarton, app. to Thurgarton priory, Burton Joyce, app. to Shelford
priory, Lowdham, app. to Westminster abbey, and Arnold, app. to Newarke
college, Leicester, are not mentioned.
£ Burton Joyce.

§ Appropriated to Thurgarton priory : no vicarage ordained.
|| Epperstone.
^[ Arnold.

** All nineteen parishes in Broxtow wapentake. Some vicarages omitted
(Greisley, app. to Beauvale priory, Lenton, Beeston, Badford, app. to Lenton
priory).

ft App. to the prioress and convent of Catesby, Northants.
£:j; App. to Newstead priory.
§§ Appropriated to Eelley priory.
|||| Eastwood.

T[^[ Appropriated to Newstead priory: no vicarage ordained.
*** See memorandum of notice, p. 174 below. All six churches in Broxtow
wapentake. The vicarage of Hucknall Torkard, app. to Newstead priory, not
mentioned.

174 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ecclesiam de Teresholt,*ecclesiam de Sutton' in Asshefeld',f
ecclesinm de Maimsefeld'4 vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Kyrkeby,§ ecclesiam de Lyndeby, ecclesiam de Huknall'.||

[24th day (19 July) : Visitation of Felley priory.^ Die
Veneris, videlicet decirno nono die eiusdem mensis Julij,
idem venerabilis pater in prioratu de Fellay,! fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eundem.

[25th day (20 July) : Visitation of WorJcsop priory.'] Die
Sabbati, videlicet vicesimo die eiusdem mensis Julij, idem
venerabilis pater in prioratu de Wirkesop',** fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eundem.

[f. 206 d.] 6. LlT.TERA DIRECTA PRIORI ET CONUENTUI DE
MATHERSAY RACIONE PRIMI ADUENTUS DOMINI.

[Notice to the Gilbertine prior and convent of Mattersey
for 27 June, in the form already given for Kirks tall, p. 165
above, dated Cawood castle, 10 May, 1409. This is followed
by memoranda of notices to other exempt houses, viz., the
Cistercian abbots and convents of Welbeek (29 June) and
Rufford (30 June), and the Cluniac prior and convent of
Lenton (14 July).]

7. PRIMA PREMUNICIO PRO VIS1TACIONE PRIORATUS DE

THURGARTON'.

[Notice of visitation to the Augustinian prior and
convent of Thurgarton for 6 July, in the form already given
for Healaugh park, p. 166 above, also dated 10 May, 1409.
Followed by memoranda of similar notices to the Augustinian
priors and convents of Sbelford (10 July), Newstead in
Sherwood (18 July), Felley (19 July), and Worksop
(20 July).]

* Teversall.

t Appropriated to Thurgarton priory : no vicarage ordained.
£ App. to the dean of Lincoln.
§ Kirkby in Ashfield.
|| Hucknall Torkard.
^[ See memorandum of notice below.
** See memorandum of visitation below.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 175

[f. 270 d.] 8. PRIMA PREMTJNICIO VISITACIONIS SPIRITU-

ALITATIS DE

[Notice of visitation of the spirituality of Snaith for
Tuesday, 23 July, addressed to the guardian of the same.
The form is founded on that for the archdeaconry of York,
p. 155 above, with many trifling variations. The guardian is
ordered to summon " omnes et singulosrectores et capellanos
parochiales ecclesiarum et capellarum dicte spiritualitatis,t
et alios capellanos et clericos in eisdem ecclesiis et
capellis qualitercumque ministraiites, ceterosque viros
ecclesiasticos, exemptos et non exemptos, et alios
quoscumque ecclesias appropriates, jurisdiccionem, priuilegia
vel exempcionem contra ics commune se habere pretendentes,
seu decimas parciales, porciones seu pensiones in alienis
parochiis contra ius commune, vt prefertur, in dicta
spiritualitate qualitercumque percipientes, perpetuas quoque
cantarias, capellas aut oratoria optinentes, necnon de
siugulis villis dicte spiritualitatis tres, quatuor, quinque vel
sex, secundurn maioritatem vel minoritatem villarum
ipsarum." The clause demanding the oath of canonical
obedience is omitted, and the variations in the passage
quoted above are preserved throughout. Dated at Cawood
castle, 2 June, 1409.]

[f. 270.] 9. PRIMA PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS ECCLESIE

COLLEGIATE DE HOUEDEN?, NECNON SPIRITUALITATIS
EIUSDEM, VT PATET INFRA.

[Notice of visitation of the collegiate church of Howden,
and of the clergy and people of the spirituality of Howden
and Howdenshire, addressed to the guardian of the same.
The form is closely similar, mutatis mutandis, to that for
the spirituality of Snaith above. The guardian is ordered to
summon " omnes et singulos caiioiiicos prebendatos eiusdem
ecclesie tain residentes personaliter in eadem quam absentes,
necnon vicarios et clericos dicte ecclesie, ac omnes alios et

* This notice is actually preceded in the register by the notice for Howden,
which follows here. This spirituality was visited first, however, as Bowet
returned from Nottinghamshire, the visitation of Howden being begun a day
later.

f The spirituality of Snaith included Snaith with its chapelries of Airmyn,
Carlton, Goole, Hook, and Rawcliffe, and Whitgift with its chapelry of
Swinefleet. The parish churches were curacies served by secular chaplains, the
rectors being the abbot and convent of Selby. See Law ton, Collections, p. 5,
for a notice of a decree made about this time, defining the limits of the juris-
diction of Selby abbey.

176 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

singulos in dicta ecclesia qualitercumque promotes et eciam
ministrantes, ceterosque omnes et singulos rectores, vicarios,
et capellanos parochiales," etc., as in the Snaith notice. In
the clause of inhibition, after the words " Vobis in super
teiiore presenciuin firmiter inhibemus " is inserted the
special clause, " et per vos priori Dunolmensi* et
quibuscumqne commissariis suis inhiberi volumus et
mandamus ne . . . . attemptetis vel attemptent, faciatis vel
faciant aliqualiter attemptari." Dated at Cawood castle,
30 May, 1409.]

[Schedule with details of visitation.^

[Is/ day (24 July] : College of Hoivden.~] Venerabilis in
Christo pater ac dominus, dominus Henricus, Dei gracia
archiepiscopus supradictus, die Marcurij,f videlicet xxiiijto
die Julij proxime future post datam suprascriptam in ecclesia
collegiata de Houeden, fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem.

[2d day (25 July) : Brantingham.~\ Die Jouis,, xxvto die
Julij, venerabilis pater supradictus in ecclesia parochiali de
Brantyngham visitabit enndem necnon capellas ab eadem
depend entes,;}: necnon ecclesiam de Welton'.

[3d day (26 July) : HowdenJ] Die Veneris, xxvjto die
Julij, venerabilis pater supradictus in ecclesia de Houeden'
visitabit ecclesiam de Walkyngton', necnon ecclesiam de
Estryngton', vicariam in eadem, prebendam de Skypwyth',
vicariam in eadem, ecclesiam de Holtby.

[4th day (27 July) : Hemingbrough.~\ Die Sabbati, xxvij0
die Julij, venerabilis pater supradictus in ecclesia de
Hemyngburgh§ visitabit eandem.

* The prior and convent of Durham were impropriators of the church of
Howden and other churches in the spirituality, and had the presentation to the
canonries and vicarages in this jurisdiction.

t Sic.

% Ellerker is usually reckoned as the only chapel dependent upon
Brantin^ham.

§ The church of Hemingbrough was not yet collegiate. Skipwith and
Hemingbrough, in Ouse and Derwent wapentake, and Holtby, in Bulmer
wapentake, were locally in Cleveland archdeaconry and Bulmer deanery : the
remaining parishes of the spirituality were in Harthill wapentake and
deanery, E.E.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 177

[f. 271.] 10. PftlMA PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS SPIRITTJ-
ALITATIS DE SELBY.

[Notice of visitation of the parish church of Selby and
the clergy and people of the spirituality for Monday,
29 July 1409, addressed to the guardian of the same. The
form is that used for the spirituality of Snaith, p. 175 above,
mutatis mutandis, and bears the same date.]

[f. 166 and d.] 11. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS ARCHI-

DIACONATUS EsTRIDDYNGE.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of East Riding,
dated at Cawood castle, 3 August 1409. The form used is
that for the archdeaconry of York, p. 155 above. The clause
directing the summons of laymen is qualified by the words
" cum deliberacione decanorum nostrorum in archidiaconatu
predicto." The clause directing the return of the certificate
is varied as follows : " Et nos seu dictos commissarios
nostros de die recepcionis presencium et de omni eo quod
feceritis in premissis citra primum diem vel ipso die in dicta
cedula nostra nominatum* distincte et aperte certificetis per
litteras vestras patentes harum seriem continentes, omnibus
et singulis decanis archidiaconatus nostri predicti firmiter
iniungendo quod nomina ecclesiarum et capellarum, ecclesias
vero appropriatas, peiisioiies, porciones, decimas parciales,
cantarias, capellas seu oratoria obtinencium seu perci-
piencium, ac citatorum omnium nomina in scrip tis redacta
coram nobis seu dictis nostris oommissariis diebus et locis in
dicta cedula nostra exhibeant expressatis."]

[Schedule detailing visitation^}

\\st day (23 Sept. 1409) : Visitation of Kirkham priory. ,]
Venerabilis in Christo pater ac dominus,, dominus Henricus,
Dei gracia archiepiscopus supradictus, die Lune, xxiiijf die
mensis Septeinbris, anno Domini supradicto, in prioratu de
Kirkham,J fauente Altissimo, visitabit eundem.

[2d day (24 Sept.) : Kirkham priory.] Die Martis, xxvto
die eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia prioratus predicti,, § idem

* Sic.

f This should be xxiij. The programme counts September as containing 31
days, and the days are all wrongly dated up to the 29th of the month in
consequence.

J See notice printed below, p. 186.

§ The visitation of Buckrose deanery begins here. All six churches in
Buckrose wapentake,

178 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

venerabilis pater, fauente Altissimo, visitabit ecclesias
subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Skirpenbek', ecclesiam de
Scrayngham, ecclesiam de Kirkeby in Hundaldale,* ecclesiam
de Wistowe,t vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Norton',}
ecclesiam de Bridsall'.§

[3d day (25 Sept.] : Kirby Grindalyth.] Die Mercurij,
xxvjto die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
de Kirkeby in Grendalej) fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Barthorp',f
ecclesiam de Wharrompercy,** vicariam eiusdem.

[4th day (26 Sept.) : Wintringham.'] Die Jouis, xxvij0
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Wyntryngham,ft fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Setryngton', ecclesiam de Langton'.

[6th day (27 Sept.) : Sherlurn in Hartford Lythe.] Die
Veneris, xxviij0 -die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
in ecclesia de Shirbum',}J fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem ecclesiam de Rillyngton',§§
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Thorpbasset, ecclesiam de
Heslarton', ecclesiam de Colhom, ecclesiam de Zeddyng-
ham,|||| vicariam eiusdem.

Dikeryng'.

[6th day (28 Sept.) : Harness.] Die Sabbati, xxix° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial!
de Hakenass',,^H[ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon

* Kirby Underdale.
t App; to Kirkham priory.

X Appropriated to Malton priory : no vicarage ordained.
§ Appropriated to Kirkham priory : no vicarage ordained.
If All three churches in Buckrose wapentake. Kirby Grindalythe app. to
Kirkham priory.
^ Burythorpe.

** App. to Haltemprice priory.

ft All three churches in Buckrose. Wintringham was appropriated to
Malton priory ; no vicarage ordained.

tt All six churches in Buckrose. Sherburn was app. to Guisborough priory.
§§ App. to By land abbey.
Illl App. to Yedingham priory.

HIT One church (Hackness) in Whitby Strand liberty, N.E. ; two churches
(Scnlby, Seamer) in Pickering Lythe wapentake3 N.E. ; two (Ganton, Willerby)
in Dickering wapentake, E.B. Hackness was appropriated to Whitby abbey:
no vicarage ordained.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 179

ecclesiam de Scalby,* vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Semer,t
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Q-almeton'J vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Wilardby, vicariam eiusdem.

[7th day (29 Sept.) : Scarborough.'] Die dominica, pen-
ultimo die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Scardeburgh',§ fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem.

[8th day (30 Sept.) : Hunmanby.^ Die Lune, vltimo die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de HundmanbyH visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem.

[f. 167.] [9th day^ (1 Oct.) : Hunmanby.] Die Martis,
primo die Octobris, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de HundmanbyH predicta visitabit ecclesia s sub-
scriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Fokton'** vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Fyuelay,ft vicariam de Neuton',JJ vicariam de
Burton' Me myng', vicariam de Muston', vicariam de Kyghton',
ecclesiam de Foxholes, ecclesiam de Thwyng*.

[iOth day (2 Oct.) : Visitation of Bridlington priory.^ Die
Mercurij, secundo die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
in prioratu de Bridlyngton',§§ fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eundem.

[llth day (3 Oct.) : Bridlington priory .] Die Jouis, tercio
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater, fauente Altissimo,,
corriget comperta in eodem.

[12//i day (4 Oct.) : Bridlington.^ Die Veneris, quarto
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Bridlyngtoii' predicta, fauente Altissimo,
visitabit eandem necnon clerum et populum eiusdem.'

* App. to Bridlington priory.

t App. to Whitby abbey.

J Ganton. Gauton and AVillerby were both app. to Bridlington priory.

§ In tbe Nortb Riding, app. to Bridlington priory.

11 In Dickering wapentake, app. to Bardney abbey, Lines.

^ Seven churches in Dickering ; one (Filey) is in Pickering Lythe, N.E,.,
but most of the parish is in Dickering.

** Sic. The rectory of Folkton was a presentable benefice.

ft Filey. Appropriated to Bridlington priory : no vicarage ordained.

JJ Wold Newton. This and the three vicarages next mentioned were
ordained in churches appropriated to Bardney abbey in Lincolnshire, and
formerly chapels of Hunmanby. The proctor of the abbot and convent was
probably summoned to Hunmanby on 30 Sept. on their behalf as rectors of
Hunmanby and these other churches as well.

§§ See memorandum of notice, p. 186 below.

180 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[13th day (5 Oct.) : Burton Agnes.'] Die Sabbati. vto die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Burton' Annas,* fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rudstan, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Carnaby,f vicariam eiusdem.

[14th day (6 Oct.) : Gar ton-on-the- Wolds. ] Die dominica,
vjto die eiusdem inensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Garton',J fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Flaynburgh',§ eccle-
siam de Boynton',11 vicariam eiusdem.

\15tli day (7 Oct.) : Lowthorpe.] Die Lune, vij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Lowthorp',^[ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Nafrerton',*"* vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Foston',tt vicariam eiusdem.

Decanatus de Holdernes.

[16th day (8 Oct.) : Beeford.~] Die Martis, viij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Beford',JJ fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Berneston', ecclesiam de Skipse,§§ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Frothyngham,|||| vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de "

[17th day (9 Oct.) : Brandes burton.^ Die Mercurij,
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Bran sbur ton'*"** visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesiam de Leven, ecclesiam de Catwyk', ecclesiam de
Siglesthorn', ecclesiam de Attyngwik',ftt vicariam eiusdem.

* All three churches in Dickering. Burton Agnes and Rudston were app.
to St. Mary's abbey, York.

f App. to Bridlington priory.

J All three churches in Dickering. Garton-on-the- Wolds was app. to
Kirkham priory.

§ Appropriated to Bridliugton priory : no vicarage ordained.
|| App. to Bridlington priory.

^[ All three churches in Dickering. The rector of Lowthorpe was master of
the college established in the church.
** App. to Meaux abbey.

ft Foston-ori-the-Wolds, app. to the Charterhouse at Hull.
jj All five churches in Holderness wapentake.
§§ App. to Meaux abbey.

Illl North Frodingham, app. to Thornton abbey, Lines.

Iflf Nunkeeling. Appropriated to Nunkeeling priory : no vicarage ordained.
*** All five churches in Holderness. Three (Brandesburton, Catwick and
Sigglesthorne) belonged to the provostry of Beverley.
ftt Atwick, app. to Bridlington priory.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 181

[18th day (10 Oct.) : Hornsea.] Die Jouis, x° die eiusdem
mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parocbiali de
Hornese* visitabit eandern iiecnon ecclesiam de Gouxhiir,
ecclesiam de Eise.

[I9th day (11 Oct.) : Visitation of Swine priory, etc.] Die
Veneris, xj° die eiusdem inensis,, idem venerabilis pater in
prioratu de Swyna,f fauente Altissimo, visitabit euiidem
necnoii ecclesiam parochialem eiusdem, vicariam eiusdem.

[20th day (12 Oct.) : Humbleton.] Die Sabbati, xrj° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Humbleton';}; visitabit eandem necnoii vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Kowthe^ ecclesiam de Button', § ecclesiam de
Drypoll',|| ecclesiam de Aldeburgh',f vicariam eiusdem,
capellam de Coldon'.**

[21st day (13 Oct.) : Meaux abbey.] Die dominica, xiij die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater habebit victualia in
monasterio de Melsa.ft

\_22d day (14 Oct.) : Roos.] Die Lune, xiiij0 die eiusdem
mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali de
Ross'JJ visitabit eandem. iiecnon ecclesiam de G-arton',§§
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Skeklyng',|||| vicariam eius-
dem, ecclesiam de Owthorn', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Wynestede.

[23d day (15 Oct.) : Easington.] Die Martis, xvto die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Esyngton'lHl" visitabit eandem necnoii vicariam eiusdem.

* All three churches in Holderness. Rise belonged to the provostry of
Beverley.

t See memorandum of notice, p. 186 below. Swine church vras app. to the
prioress and convent of Swine.

I All six churches in Holderness. Humbleton was app. to Thornton abbey,
Lines.

§ Suttou-on-Hull. A collegiate church : no vicarage ordained.
|| Drypool appears to have been appropriated to Swine priory : no vicarage
ordained.

Tf App. to Kirkstall abbey.

** A chapel of Aldbrough, but with its own rector. It appears that no cure
of souls was involved (Lambeth Reg. Langham, f. 12).
ft See notice printed below, p. 186.
JX All five churches in Holderness.

§§ Garton-in-Holderness, app. to Thornton abbe}', Lines.
II || Skeckling and Owthorne were app. to Kirkstall abbey.
Hlf All four churches in Holderness. Halshain belonged to the provostry of
Beverley. Easington was app. to Meaux abbey.

182 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ecclesiam de Halsham, ecclesiam de Wythornse,* vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kylnese, vicariam eiusdem.

[24th day (16 Oct.) : Welwick.] Die Mercurij, xvjl°
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial!
de Welwyk'f visitabit eandem necnon vicaviaui eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Birstall',J vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Patryngton*.

[25th day (17 Oct.) : Ottringham.] Die Jouis, xvij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Otryiighain§ visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de
Cayngham,|| vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Paule,^[
vicariam eiusdem.

Decanatus de Herthill'.

[f. 167 d.] [26th day (18 Oct.) : Hull.] Die Veneris,
xviij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in capella
sancte Trinitatis in villa regis super Hull' visitabit eandem
necnon ecclesiam de HesilP** cum capella beate Marie
in eadem.

[27th day (19 Oct.) : Cottingham.] Die Sabbati, xix die
eiusdem meusis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Cotynghamft visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de Elue-
lay,JJ vicariam eiusdem.

[28th day (20 Oct.) : Enthronement at Beverley.] Die
dominica, xx° die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater per
Dei graciam erit intronizatus et iiistallatus in ecclesia sua
Beuerlacensi.

* Withernsea and Kilusea were app. to Kirkstall abbey.

t All three churches in Holderuess. Welwick and Patriugton belonged to
the provostry of^Beverley, Welwick being app. to the collegiate church of
Beverley.

J Also known as Skeffling, app. to Kirkstall abbey.

^ All three churches in Holderness. Ottringhani was appropriated to
Bridlington priory : no vicarage ordained. It may be noted that the visitation
of this deanery included no arrangements for the churches of Hilston,
Holmpton, and Sproatley.

|| App. to Meaux abbey.

^ App. to Kirkstall abbey.

** Hessle church was app. to Guisborough priory. The vicarage is omitted
here.

ft Cottingham in Harthill (Hunsley Beacon)* Kirk Ella is reckoned as in
Hullshire in Lawton, Collections.
Jt Kirk Ella, app. to Haltemprice pidory.

VISITATION DOCtfMlBtfTS. 183

[29th day (21 Oct.) : Visitation of Beverley minster.'] Die
Lime, xxj° die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
ecclesiam suam Beuerlacensem,* fauente Altissimo, visitabit.

[30th day (22 Oct.) : Beverley.] Die Martis, xxij die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia sancti
Martini, videlicet le CharnelP, visitabit eandem necnon
capellam beate Marie, ecclesiam sancti Nicholai.

day (28 Oct.) : Visitation of Haltemprice priory.]
Die Mercurij, xxiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis
pater in prioratu de Hautenpriss't visitabit eundem.

[32c£ day (24 Oct.) : Visitation of Ferriby priory .] Die
Jouis, xxiiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in
prioratu de FerybyJ visitabit eundem.

[33d day (25 Oct.) : North Ferriby.] Die Veneris, xxvto
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Feryby§ predicta visitabit eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rowlay, ecclesiam de
Hotham.

day (26 Oct.) : Bishop Burton.] Die Sabbati,
xxv j10 die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater apud
Bisshopburton'H visitabit ecclesiam de North Caue^[ necnon
vicariarn eiusdem, ecclesiam de Santon',** vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Nortburton'.ft

[35£/i day (27 Oct.) : Leconfield.] Die dominica, xxvij
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia

* See notice printed below, p. 186.

•f See memorandum of notice below, p. 186.

| See memorandum of notice below, p. 186.

§ North Ferriby, the church of which was app. to Ferriby priory, is
reckoned by Lawton in Hnllshire. Hotham and Rowley are in Harthill
(Hunsley Beacon).

|| All three churches in Harthill (Hunsley Beacon). Cherry Burton
belonged to the provostry of Beverley. The archbishop seems to have held
this visitation at his manor-house, and to have left the church of Bishop
Burton unvisited.

^[ App. to the Charterhouse at Hull.
** App. to Watton priory.
tt Cherry Burton.

184 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

parochial! de Lekynfeld'* visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam
de Etton', ecclesiam de Skyreii'^t ecclesiam de Southdalton',
ecclesiain de Howine.J

[36th day (28 Oct.) : Watton priory.] Die Lune, xxviij
die eiusdem mensis, videlicet in festo apostolorum Simonis et
Jude, idem venerabilis pater erit in prioratu de Watton', §
et procurabitur eidem in victualibus racione primi
aduentus sui.

[37th day (29 Oct.) : Lockington.~] Die Martis, xxix° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial!
de Lokynton'H visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de
Lund',^[ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kyllyngwyk',**
ecclesiam de Watton'. ff

[38th day (30 Oct.) : Kirkburn.~\ Die Mercurij, penultimo
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de BurneJJ visitabit eandem necnon vic§§
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Roton',|||| vicariam eiusdem.

[39th day (31 Oct.) : Bainton.~\ Die Jouis, vltimo die
eiusdem mensis, videlicet in vigilia Omnium Sanctorum, in
ecclesia de Baynton'^Hf visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam
de Midelton', ecclesiam de Skordeburg'.***

[4<0th day (1 Nov.) : Visitation of Warter priory.~\ Die
Veneris, primo die Noueinbris, videlicet in festo Omnium

* Three churches in Harthill (Hunsley Beacon) ; two (Skerne, Holme) in
Harthill (Bainton Beacon). Leoonfield and South Daltou were in the provostry
of Beverley.

t Appropriated to Wattou priory : no vicarage ordained.
J Holme-oii-the- Wolds. Said to be appropriated to Swine priory : no
vicarage ordained.

§ See memorandum of notice below, p. 186.
|| All four churches in Harthill (Bainton Beacon).
f App. to Warter priory.

** Kilnwick-on-the- Wolds. Appropriated to Watton priory : no vicarage
ordained.

ft Appropriated to Watton priory : no vicarage ordained,
tt Both churches in Harthill (Bainton Beacon). Kirkburn was app. to
Guisborough priory.
§§ Sic.

Hutton Crauswick, app. to Watton priory.

1[5f All three churches in Harthill (Bainton Beacon). Middletou-on-the-
Wolds and Scorbrous:h were in the provostry of Beverley.
*** Soorbrough. '

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 185

Sanctorum, idem venerabilis pater in prioratu de Wartr',*
visitabit eundem.

day (2 Nov.) : Warier.] Die Sabbati, secundo die
eiusdem, t in ecclesia parochial! de Wartr',J idem venerabilis
pater visitabit eandem necnon vicarinm eiusdem, ecclesiani
de Northdalton',§ ecclesia in de Hugate, ecclesiam de
Gudmundham.

day (3 Nov.) : Cation.] Die dominica, iij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de CattonMI visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de
Lownesburgh', ecclesiam de Burnehonr*^ ecclesiani de
Burneby, ecclesiam de Holme, ecclesiam de Eueryngham,
ecclesiam de Horsenwell',** ecclesiam de Fulsutton'.

day (4 Nov.) : Sutton-on-Derwent.] Die Lune, iiijto
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Sutton' super Derwentff visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam
de Ellerton', ecclesiam Aghton',JJ ecclesiam de Bub with', §§
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wresill',|||| vicariam
eiusdem.

\_4f4tth day (5 Nov.) : Ellerton priory.] Die Martis, quinto
die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater erit in prioratu
de Ellerton',1ffl et procurabitur eidem in victualibus racione
primi aduentus sui.

EXPLICIT.

* See memorandum of notice, p. 186 below,
f Sic.

j Two churches in Harthill (Bainton Beacon) ; Huggate in Harthill
(Wilton Beacon) ; Goodmanham in Harthill (Holme Beacon). Warter church
was app. to Warter priory.

§ Appropriated to Watton priory : no vicarage ordained.
|| Cattou, Burnby, and Full Sutton in Harthill (Wilton Beacon) : the
remaining five in Harthill (Holme Beacon), but part of Nunburnholme parish
is in Wilton Beacon.
If Nunburnholme.

** Harswell. A note (p'catr p') is written against this in the margin.
ft In Harthill (Wilton Beacon) : the other four are in Harthill (Holme
Beacon) .

H Sic. Appropriated to Ellerton priory : no vicarage ordained.
§§ This applies only to the mediety appropriated to Byland abbey. The
other mediety was in the jurisdiction of the dean and chapter.

IIJI App. to Drax priory.
Tlf See memorandum of notice below, p. 186.

186 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[f. 168.] 12. PREMUNICIO PRO VISITACIONE PRIORIS ET

CONUENTUS DE KYRKHAM.

[Notice of visitation of the Augustinian prior and convent
of Kirkham for Monday, 24 (sic) Sept., 1409, dated at
Cawood castle, 3 August. The form, mutatis mutandis,
is that for Healaugh park, p. 166 above. Followed by
memoranda of similar letters to the Augustinian priors and
convents of Bridlington (2 Oct.), Haltemprice (28 Oct.),
Ferriby (24 Oct.) and Warter (1 Nov.), and the Cistercian
prioress and convent of Swine (11 Oct.).]

13. LlTTERA DIRECTA ABBATI ET CONUENTUI DE MEI,SA
RACIONE PRIMI ADUENTUS SUI.

[Notice to the Cistercian abbot and convent of Meaux for
Sunday, 13 Oct., 1409, dated at Cawood castle 3 August.
The form, mutatis mutandis, is that for Kirkstall, p. 165
above. Followed by memoranda of similar letters to other
exempt houses, viz., the Gilbertine priors and convents of
Watton (28 Oct.) and Ellerton (5 Nov.).]

[f. 43.] 14. PREMUNICIO PRO VISITACIONE CLERI ET POPULI
ECCLESIE BEUERLACENSIS CUM INHIBICIONE.

[Notice of visitation of Beverley minster on 21 Oct., 1409
(3 Aug. 1409).]

Henricus, etc., dilectis filiis capitulo ecclesie nostre
collegiate Beuerlacensis vel ipsius commissario, salutem, etc.
Quia clerum et populum ecclesie, prebendarum et commune
Beuerlacensium, die Lune, videlicet xxj die mensis Octobris
proxime t'uturo, in ecclesia sine capella sancti Martini Beuer-
laci iiitendimus per Dei graciam visitare, vobis mandamus
quatinus citetis seu citari faciatis peremptorie de singulis
prebendis et communa dicte ecclesie vicarios, presbiteros et
clericos in eisdem minis tr antes, iiecnon tres vel quatuor viros
fidedignos singulis* villis ecclesie prebendarum et commune
ecclesie nostre predicte, qui eiusdem tenentes existant,
secundum maioritatem vel minoritatem villarum ipsarum,
quod ipsi dicto die Lune teinpestiue coram iiobis vel com-
missariis nostris coinpareant, visitacionem nostram denote
et humiliter adniissuri, exhortaciones eciam, examinaciones
et correcciones debitas canoiiice subituri, predicti vicarii et

* Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS, 187

presbiteri litteras ordinum suorum exhibituii. Vobis insuper
tenore presencium inhibemus eisque inhiberi volumus et
mandamus ne pendente huiusmodi negocio visitacionis nostre
quicquam quod in dicte visitacionis preiudicium cedere valeat
attemptetis seu faciatis per vestros commissarios aliqualiter
atteniptari. Prouiso quod laici euocandi sint veridici, bone
opinionis et fame, sicut canonicam effugere volueritis
vlcionem. Nos super huiusmodi execucione inandati citra
dictum diem certincantes per vestras patentes litteras vna
cum citatorum nominibus eisdem annexis, que harum
litterarum seriem representent. Data in castro nostro de
Cawod', tercio die meiisis Augusti, anno Domini millesimo
ccccmo nono, et nostre translacionis secundo.

[f. 150.] 15. VlSITACIO ARCH1NATUS* DE CLEVELAND.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of Cleveland,
undated. The date, as shewn by the concurrent notices to
religious houses, pp. 191, 192 below, should be 14 May, 1410.
The form used is that for the archdeaconry of York, p. 155

above.]

\_8chedule detailing visitation.^

[1st day (30 June 1410) : Stillingfleet.] Yenerabilis in
Christo pater et dominus, dominus Henricus, Dei gracia
Ebor' archiepiscopus, die Lune proxima post festum aposto-
lorum Fetri et Pauli proxime futurum, videlicet vltimo die
mensis Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Stillyngnet',f fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, eccle-
siani de Eskcrik', ecclesiam de Queldryk'.

[2d day (1 July] : BossalL] Die Martis vero, videlicet
primo die mensis Julij, prefatus venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Bossall',J fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Eluyngton', ecclesiam
de Donyngton', ecclesiam de Emelsay3§ ecclesiam de Cram-
bom', || vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Foston'.

* Sic. All marginal title in a later hand.

t Beginning of the visitation of Bulmer deanery. All three churches in Ouse
and Derwent wapentake. Stilliugfleet was app. to St. Mary's hospital, Boothani,
York.

J Five churches in Bulmer wapentake : one (Elviugton) in Ouse and
Derwent.

§ Over or Upper Helmsley.

U Crarnbe. App. to Kirkham priory.

188 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[3d day (2 July) : BrandsbyJ] Die Mercurij, videlicet
secundo die mensis Julij, in ecclesia parochiali de Brandesby*
visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de Bulmar', ecclesiam de
Tyryngton' [f. 150 d.], ecclesiam de Dalby, ecclesiam de
Qwenby, ecclesiam de Marton', f ecclesiam de Hoton' Vic'4
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Button' in Galtres,§ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Huntyngton',|| vicariam eiusdem.

[4th day, etc. (3 July) : Visitation of Marion priory.'] Die
Jouis, videlicet tercio die mensis .predicti, in prioratu de
Marton'^f visitabit eundem cum coiitinuacione dierum sequen-
cium.

[QtJi day (5 July) : Easingwold.] Die Sabbati, videlicet
quinto die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
de Esyngwald'** visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Ouerton',ff vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Neuton;,JJ ecclesiam de Miton',§§ vicariam eiusdem, eccle-
siam de Brafferton', ecclesiam de Cessay, ecclesiam de Thor-
manby, ecclesiam de Thurkilby,|||| vicariam eiusdem.

[7th day, etc. (6 July) : Visitation of Newburgh priory. ] Die
dominica, videlicet sexto die mensis predicti, in prioratu de
Nouo burgo^H! visitabit eundem cum continuacione dierum
sequenciuui .

[lO^/i day (9 July) : Byland abbey.] Die Mercurij, vide-
licet nono die eiusdem mensis, dominus erit in monasterio
de Bellalanda,^*^ et procurabunt eidem in victualibus
racione primi aduentus sui.

* All nine churches in Bulmer. The vicarage of Wheuby is not mentioned.
f Marton-on-the-Forest. Appropriated to Marton priory : no vicarage
ordained.

J Hutton Vicecomitis, i.e., Sheriff Hutton, app. to Marton priory.
§ Sutton-on-the-Forest, app. to Marton priory.
il App. to the vicars choral of York minster.
T[ See notice of visitation printed, p. 191 below.

** Six churches in Bulmer ; Sessay in Allertonshire ; Thirkleby in Birdforth.
The vicarage of Brafferton, app. to Newburgh priory, is not mentioned.
Easingwold was app. to the archdeacon of Richmond,
ft App. to St. Mary's abbey, York.

%% Newton-on-Ouse. Appropriated to St. Leonard's hosp.,York : no vicarage
ordained.

§§ Myton-on-S\vale, app. to St. Mary's abbey, York.
HI) App. to Newburgh priory.
H if See memorandum of notice, p. 191 below.
*** See notice, p. 192 below.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 189

[1 Ith day (10 July) : Thirsk.] Die Jouis, videlicet x° die
eiusdem men sis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Thirsk',* fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon
ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Cokewold't
ecclesiam de Feliskirk',J vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Kirkeby Knoll', ecclesiam de Kiluyngton',§ ecclesiam de
South otryiigton', ecclesiam de Topcliff',|| vicariam eiusdem.

Decanatus Cliueland'.l

[12th day (13 July) : Hutton Rudby.] Die Dominica,,
videlicet xiij° die predicti men sis, in ecclesia de Brudby**
visitabit eandem necnon ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet
ecclesiam Ingelby Arnecliff',tt ecclesiam de Ingelby Grene-
how, J J ecclesiam de Kildale, ecclesiam de Welbury, ecclesiam
de Aton'.§§

[13th day (14 July) : Stokesley.] Die Lune, videlicet
xiiij0 eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia parochiali de Stokeslay||||
visita.bit eandem, necnon clerum et populum capelle de
Appelton' super Wisk' ac ville de Horneby et de Thorpraw^ffl
et ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Leuenton',***
ecclesiam de Crathorn', ecclesiam de Kirkeby in Clyuel',ttt
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de MidelburghJ,JJJ ecclesiam de
Ormesby,§§§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Skelton'.||||||

* All seven churches in Birdforth. Part of Topcliffe parish is in Hallikeld.
Thirsk church was appropriated to Newburgh priory : no vicarage ordained.
f Coxwold. -Appropriated to Byland abbey : no vicarage ordained.
J App. to the priory of St. John of Jerusalem in England.
§ South Kilvington.
|| App. to the fabric of York minster.

^[ The visitation of the spirituality of Allerton intervened at this point,
lasting two days and a half. The visitation of Cleveland deanery was begun on
the day when this visitation came to an end.

** Five churches in Langbaurgh wapentake : Welbury in Birdforth.
•f-f Sic. Appropriated to Guisborough priory : no vicarage ordained.
Jt Appropriated to Whitb}r abbey : no vicarage ordained.
§§ Great Ayton. Appropriated to Whitby abbey : no vicarage ordained.
[||| All seven churches and the chapel in Langbaurgh.

^[^[ Outlying portions of Great Smeaton parish, of which the parish church was
in the archdeaconry and deanery of Richmond. Thorpe Row is close east of
Smeaton village.

*** Kirklevington. Appropriated to Guisborough priory : no vicarage
ordained.

fft A presentable rectory.

JJt Middlesbrough. Appropriated to Whitby abbey : no vicarage ordained.
§§§ App. to Guisborough priory.
IHIII Appropriated to Guisborough priory : no vicarage ordained.

190 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

day (15 July] : Kirkleatham.] Die Hartis, videlicet
xv eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia de Lethom'* visitabit eandeui
necnom (sic) ecclesiam de Staynton', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Marton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Mersk',
vicariam eiusdem.

\\btli day (16 July) : Guisborough.'] Die Mercurij, vide-
licet xvj die eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia de Gisburnef visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesiam de Danby,J ecclesiam de Esyngton',
ecclesiam de Hilderwell',§ ecclesiam de Lythe, ecclesiam de
Sneton'.

[16th day, etc. (17 July) : Visitation of Guisborough priory .]
Die Jouis, videlicet xvij die eiusdem mensis, in prioratu de
Gisburn'H visitabit eundem cum continuacioiie dierum
sequencium.

[19th day (20 July) : Visitation of Whitby abbey.] Die
dominica, videlicet xx° die eiusdem mensis, in monasterio de
Whitby^f visitabit eundem neciioii ecclesiam parochialem
eiusdem ville.

Decanatus de RidalP.

[2Sd day (23 July) : Brompton-in-Pickering-Lythe.~\ Die
Mercurij, xxiij0 die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
in ecclesia de Brumpton'** visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam
de Hotoii' busselP, ecclesiam de Wikhamff [f. 151], ecclesiam
de Tliorneton', ecclesiam de Leuesbam, ecclesiam de Setryng-

* All four churches in Langbaurgh. Stainton, Marlon and Marske were all
app. to Guisborough priory.

f Five churches in Langbaurgh : Sneaton in the libert}^ of Whitby Strand.
Guisborough church was appropriated to Guisborough priory: no vicarage
ordained.

J Appropriated to Guisborough priory : no vicarage ordained.

§ Hinderwell.

|| See memorandum of notice, p. 191 below.

^f See memorandum of notice, p. 191 below.

** All six churches in Pickering Lythe. Part of Sinnington parish is in
Eyedale.

ft Appropriated to Wykeham priory : no vicarage ordained.
t+ Sic. Sinnington is evidently meant. Appropriated to Yedingham
priory : no vicarage ordained. Settrington had been visited in its proper place
among the churches of Buckrose deanery, E.R.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[24th day (24 July) : Middleton-by- Pickering.] Die Jouis,
videlicet xxiiij0 die eiusdemmensis, inecclesia de Midelton'*
visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de Lastyngham,t vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kirkebymisperton', ecclesiam de
Normanby, ecclesiam de Eddeston',:f vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Kirkebymoressidy,§ vicariam eiusdem.

[25th day (25 July) : Stonegrave.] Die Veneris, videlicet
xxvto (jig eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia de StayngTefe|| visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesiam de Kirkdale, ecclesiam de
Helmeslay,^[ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Skalton',
ecclesiam de Oswaldkirk', ecclesiam de Gillyng', ecclesiam
de Nunnyngton'.

[26th day (26 July) : Bar ton-le- Street.] Die Sabbati,
videlicet xxvj die eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia de Barton'**
visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiam de Houyngham,tt
ecclesiam de Slyngesby, ecclesiam de Apilton^JJ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Malton'. §§

[27th day (27 July) : Malton priory.] Die dominica,
videlicet xxvij die mensis predicti, dominus erit in prioratu
de Malton', || || et procurabunt eidem in victualibus racione
primi aduentus sui.

16. PRIMA PBEMUNICIO VISITACIONIS PRIORATUS DE MABTON'.

[Notice of visitation of the Augustinian prior and
convent of Marton, for Thursday, 3 July 1410^ dated at
Cawood castle, 14 May. The form, mutatis mutandis, is that
used for Healaugh park, p. 166 above. Followed by memo-
randa of similar letters to the Augustinian priors and con-
vents of Newburgh (6 July) and Guisborough (17 July), and
the Benedictine abbot and convent of Whitby (20 July).]

* Two churches (Middletou, Kirkby Misperton) in Pickering Lythe. The
remaining four in Ryedale.

f App. to St. Mary's abbey, York.

j App. to Hexham priory.

§ Sic. App. to Newburgh priory.

|| All seven churches in Eyedale.

^[ App. to Kirkham priory.
** All five churches in Ryedale.

ft Appropriated to Byland abbey : no vicarage ordained.
jt App. to St. Albans abbey, Herts.

§§ Appropriated to Malton priory : no vicarage ordained.
Illl See memorandum of notice, p. 192 below.

192 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

17. PREMUNICIO DE BELLALANDA RACIONE PRIMI ADUENTUS.

[Notice to the Cistercian abbot and convent of Byland
for Wednesday, 9 July, 1410, dated at Cawood castle,
14 May. The form is that used for Kirkstall, p. 165 above.
Followed by memoranda of similar notices to other exempt
houses, viz., to the Cistercian abbot and convent of
Rievaulx,* and the Gilbertine prior and convent of Malton
(27 July).]

[f. 273.] 18. PREMUNICIO PRIME VISITACIONIS DE ALUERTON'
ET ALUERTON'SHIRE.

[Notice of visitation of the spirituality of Allerton and
Allertonshire, addressed to the guardian of the same, dated
at Cawood castle, 14 May, 1410. The form used is that
employed for the spirituality of Snaith, p. 175 above.]

[Schedule detailing visitation.^

[1st day (11 July, 1410) : Northallerton hospita.l.~\
Reuerendissimus in Christo pater et dominus, dominus
Henricus, Dei gracia Ebor' archiepiscopus, die Veneris,
videlicet xj die mensis Julij, anno Domini supradicto, in
hospitali de Aluerton'f visitabit ecclesias subscriptas,
videlicet ecclesiam de Syggeston', ecclesiam de Eunketon'.J

\_2d day (12 July) : Northallerton.] Die Sabbati, videlicet
xij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Aluerton' visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Brit by, § ecclesiam de Cowseby.

[3c£ day (13 July) : Northallerton^] Die dominica, videlicet
xiij die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in dicta
ecclesia de Aluerton', fauente Altissimo, visitabit ecclesias
subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam de Leek,|| vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Osmunderlay^[ cum porcionibus, vicariam
eiusdem .

* No arrangement is made in the programme, but the archbishop may have
gone to Rievaulx about 22 July, after his visitation of Whitby abbey.

f See notice of visitation printed below. Northallerton church was app. to
the prior and convent of Durham.

| West Eounton.

§ Birkby.

|| Leake was appropriated to the bishop of Durham.

If The church of Osmotherley was held by three portioners, pres. by the
bishop of Durham.

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19. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS HOSPITALIS DE ALUERTON''.

[Notice of visitation of the hospital of Northallerton for
Friday, 11 July 1410, addressed to the master or warden,
brethren and sisters of the same, dated at Cawood castle,
14 May. The form used is that for Healaugh park, p. 166
above, mutatis mutandis ; but instead of the clause " ex
quibus .... ad salutem " appears the following : " vosque
magister siue custos titulum et ius quod in dicto hospitali
vos habere pretenditis, ac statuni, ordinacionem et funda-
cionern ipsius hospitalis coram iiobis exhibituri, facturi
vlterius et recepturi quod iusticia suadebit." The visitation
included, in addition to those addressed, "capellanos ac
ceteros quoscumque infra dictum hospitale commor antes."]

20. [Commission to hear and determine causes concerning
St. Oswald's priory, Gloucester, within the jurisdiction
ofChurchdown (25 June 1410).]*

Henricus, etc., dilecto nobis in Ohristo magistro Eicardo
Dier,f canonico ecclesie cathedralis Herefordensis, salutem
in omnium Saluatore. Ad cognoscendum, procedendum,
statuendum, finiendum, terminandum ac exequendum cum
omnibus suis connexis incidentibus emergentibus et depen-
dentibus in quibuscumque causis dilectos in Christo filios
priorem et conuentum sancti Oswaldi Gloucestr', ordinis
sancti Augustini, nostrarum fundacionis et diocesis, ac
eorum ecclesiam, siue ad instanciam patris siue ex oificio
erga quoscumque nostros subditos infra iiostram jurisdic-
cionem de Chircheden, qualitercumque concernentibus. vobis,
de cuius circumspeccionis industria plenius confidimus, vices
nostras cum cuiuslibet canonice cohercionis potestate comit-
timus^ per presentes. Data in castro nostro de Cawod',
xxvto die mensis Junij, anno Domini in0 ccccmo decimo, et
nostre translacionis tercio.

* No marginal description in the original.

f Richard Dyer may be identified with the clerk of that name who was
rector of Swindon, Glouces. (near Cheltenham) in 1398 (Cal. Papal Letters, v.,
125). It is not known when he was inst. to Swindon. Walter Dyere was
inst. on 1 Oct. 1368 (Worcester Epis. Reg. Whittlesey, f. 25). Richard Dyer
exch. Swindon for a canonry and the prebend of Hampton Episcopi in Hereford
and the churoh of St. John Baptist, Troy, Monm., with Hugh Vaghan,
14 Sept., 1404 (Worces. Reg. Clifford, ff. 78 d, 79). He res. his prebend in
Hereford by 26 March, 1419 (Hereford Reg. Lacy, f. 20 d).

J Sic.

O

194 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[f. 55 d.] 21. SECUNDA PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS DOMINI

FACTA CAPITULO '

[Notice of visitation of the chapter of York on 22 June, 1416
(21 April, 1416).]

Henricus, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis capitulo ecclesie
nostre cathedralis Ebor', decanatu eiusdem vacante,* salutem,
etc. Volentes vos, fauente Altissimo, iuxta vim, f ormam et
effectum composicionis olim facte super modo et forma
visitacionis in vos per archiepiscopum Ebor' qui pro tempore
fuerit exerceiide, et auctoritate apostolica con fir mate, t vice-
simo vicesimo J secundo die mensis Junij proxime f uturo post
datam presencium in capitulo ecclesie nostre predicte visitare,
et sic visitacionis officium in vos exercere, ipsamque coni-
posicionem iuxta eiusdem seriem in omnibus ex parte nostra,
quantum ad nos attinet, obseruare ; vobis capitulo, decanatu
vacante, paternaliter mandamus quod compareatis et intersitis
eisdem die et loco, visitacionem nostram huiusmodi subituri.
Conuocetis insuper canonicos et ceteros de capitulo qui suiit
et fuerint oonuocandi, quod eisdem die et loco compareant et
intersint coram nobis, dictam visitacionem nostram in forma
et modo in dicta composicione contentis subituri, facturi, et
eciam recepturi quod natura et forma negocij secundum
tenorem predicte composicionis exigunt et requirunt. De
die vero recepcionis presencium et quid feceritis in premissis
nos ad dictos diem et locum certificare curetis per vestras
litteras patentes harum seriem continentes. Data apud
Cawod', vicesimo primo die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini
niillesimo ccccmo sextodecimo, et nostre translacionis nono.

Acta eiusdem visitacionis.
[Process of the above visitation.^

Quo die vicesimo secundo, adueniente hora capitulari
ecclesie Ebor' solita post preciosa,§ prefatus reuereiidissimus
in Christo pater et dominus, dominus Henricus, archiepiscopus

* John Prophete, dean of York, made his will on 8 April, 1416 (see Test.
Ebor. III., 53 sqq., and note on pp. 53-4), and, from the date of this notice, died
within the next thirteen days.

f See the copy of the composition printed at the end of these documents,
and also the introduction.

J Sic.

§ The ^ Preciosa in conspectu Domini, with ty Mors xanctorum eius, which,
at the close of prime, preceded the reading of the Martilogium in chapter.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 195

EborV, Aiiglie primas et apostolice sedis legatus, ingressua
est doinum capitularem ; et proposito verbo Dei, cuius thema
fuit* . . . ., porrectoque certinVatorio cuius tenor inferius
describitur, vocatisque canonicis, idem reuerendus pater ad
interessendum visitacioni predicte niagistrum Edmundum
Kirketoii', sacre pagine professorem, Ricardum ArnalP,f
curie Ebor' commissarium generalem, et doiniiium Thoniain
Wyot, canoiiicum capelle beate Marie et sanctorum Ange-
lorum Ebor', et Robertum Elugh', clericum, ad scribendum
sibi assumpsit. Facta protestacione per magistrura Willel-
muiii Cawod', canoiiicum residenciarium, vt inferius scribitur,
virtute procuratorij sui inferius eciam registrati, prefatus
reuerendus pater protestabatur se velle inniti iuri commuiii
ac eciam composicioiii predicte, quatenus tenebatur et noii
aliter, et capituluni predictum adtunc actualiter visitauit.
Interfuerunt visitati, capituluni facientes, rnagister Brianus
Fairfax, precentor, Johannes Notyngham, thesaurarius,
Willelnius Waltham, canonicus residenciarius, prebendarius
prebende de Cave, Thomas Haxey, canonicus residenciarius,
prebendarius prebende de Bariiby, Willelnius Cawod', canoni-
cus residenciarius, prebendarius prebende de Botevant',
Steplianus Lescrop', canonicus residenciarius, prebendarius
prebende de Bichyll' et Knaresburgh', Thomas Grenewod,
canonicus ecclesie predicte, prebendarius prebende de
Thokeryngtoii'.

Certificatorium eiusdem.

[Certificate of the receipt and execution of the archbishop's
mandate by the chapter of York, 21 June, 1416.]

Veiierabili in Christo patri et domino, domino Henrico,
Dei gracia Ebor5 archiepiscopo, etc., sui humiles et deuoti
capituluni ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', decaiiatu eiusdem
vacante, salute m cum reuereiicia et hoiiore debitis tanto
patri. Litteras vestras vicesimo tercio die niensis Aprilis
vltimo preterite recepimas,, eo qui sequitur sub tenore.
Henricus, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis capitulo ecclesie nostre
cathedralis Ebor', decanatu eiusdem vacante, salutein,
graciam et benediccioiiern. Volentes vos, fauente Altissimo,
iuxta vim, forma in et effectual coniposicioiiis, etc., vt supra
vsque Data apud Cawod', vicesimo priino die uieiisis Aprilis,
anno Domini millesinio ccccmo sextodecimo, et nostre

* Blank in original.

t For notes on the clerks mentioned on this page, see Appendix.

o 2

196 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

translacioiiis nono. Nos itaque capituluin supradictum
volentes composicioriem huiusmodi, quantum ad nos attinet,
fir miter obseruare, vestris litteris et mandatis in hac parte
paruinius iuxta vim, formam et effecturn composicionis
predicte in hac parte inite, ac parebimus reuerenter. Vestra
valeat paternitas reuerenda per tempora longiora. Data
Ebor' vicesimo primo die mensis Junij, anno Domini
millesimo quadringentesimo sextodecimo.

[f. 56.] [Capitula, tercius quaternus.]
Procuratorium capituli ad protestandum.

[Appointment by the chapter of York of William Cawode as
their proctor, 21 June, 1416.]

Vniuersis Christi fidelibus pateat per presentes quod nos
capitulum ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', decanatu eiusdem
vacante, saluis libertatibus, immunitatibus, priuilegiis,
iurisdiccionibus, indultis et iuribus nostris aliis nobis
competentibus quibuscumque, quibus per infrascripta non
intendimus nee volumus in aliquo derogare, ad comparendum
coram venerabili in Christo patre domino Henrico, Dei
gracia Ebor' archiepiscopo, etc., quibuscumque diebus et locis
ac temporibus oportunis, ad intiinandum, iiisinuandum, notifi-
candum, allegaiidum, proponendum immunitates, libertates,
priuilegia, consuetudines et indulta nobis et singularibus
personis dicti capituli, ac excepciones, defensiones et que-
cumque alia iura nostra, racione dictarum immunitatum,
libertatum, priuilegioruni, consuetudinum et indultorum, et
precipue composicionis amicabilis inter bone memorie
dominum Willelmum de Melton', dudum archiepiscopum
Ebor', pro se et successoribus suis ex parte vna^ ac decanum
ecclesie supradicte et nos capitulum antedictum ex alia
parte, et auctoritate apostolica confirmate, super et de inodo
et forma visitacionum quas arcliiepiscopi Ebor' in nos
liabeant et debeant exercere, nobis quomodolibet coinpetencia,
et de eisdem, quatenus de iure artari poterimus et non aliter
nee vltra, fidem faciendum, prouocanduin, appellaiidum,
prouocacionem et appellacionem ac eciain causas prosequen-
duni, apostolosque petenduni et recipienduin, ac oninia alia
et singula faciendum, gerendum,exerceiidum,et expedieiidum,
que in premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint quomodolibet
vel oportuna, eciam si mandatum exigant speciale, citra

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 197

reuocacionem quorumcuinque procuratorum iiostroruin per
nos hactenus constitntorum, dilectum nobis in Christo
raagistmm Willelinum Cawod'., confratreui et concanonicuin
nostrum, procuratorem nostrum et nuncium specialem
ordinamus, faciinus et constituimus per presentes, pro-
mittentes nos rat am, gratum et firmum perpetuis temporibus
habituros quicquid idem procurator noster nomine nostro
agendum duxerit in preinissis. In cuius rei testimonium
sigillum nostrum commune presentibus fecimus apponi.
Data in domo nostra capitulari vicesimo primo die men sis
Junij, anno Domini millesimo ccccmo sextodecimo.

Protestacio eiusdem.

[Assertion of the rights of the chapter by William Cawode,
22 June, 1416.]

In Dei nomine, amen. Coram vobis, reuerendissimo in
Christo patre et domino,, domino Henrico, Dei gracia Ebor'
archiepiscopo, Anglie primate et apostolice sedis legato, qui
hoc die Lune vicesimo secundo mensis Junij instantis
capitulum ecclesie vestre cathedralis Ebor', vt asseritur,
intenditis visitare, Ego Willelmus Cawod', canomcus ecclesie
Ebor', dicti capituli procurator, nomine procurators pro
eodem et singularibus canonicis et personis eiusdem, dico,
allego et propono quod inter bone memorie dominum
Willelmum de Melton', dudum Ebor' archiepiscopum, pre-
decessorem vestrum, pro se et singulis successoribus suis
archiepiscopis Ebor' ex parte vna, ac decanum dicte ecclesie
et prefatum capitulum ex altera, super et de modo et forma
per archiepiscopum Ebor' dictos decanum et capitulum
visitandi quedam composicio Deo grata concorditer fuit et
est inita, et auctoritate sedis apostolice legitime confirmata,
ac semper citra in quacumque visitacione archiepiscopi Ebor'
visitantis pacifice obseruata ; ac protestor palam, et publice
in hiis scriptis predico quod dictum capitulum vestrum et
singulares persone eiusdem, quatenus ipsos* attinet et
concernit, volunt et consenciunt et parati sunt et erunt
dictam composicionem inuiolabiliter in omnibus obseruare et
non aliter, nee vltra vel alio modo quam in dicta composicione
continetur, se velle aliquo modo in vos iurisdiccionem seu
visitacionem vestram, quam predicto die Lune vt prefertur
exercere intenditis, quomodolibet consentire, admittere, vel

* Sic.

198 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

subire, sed volunt et intendunt, ac ego eorum nomine et meo
volo et intendo, quod si quid, quod absit, contra dictain
composicionem de facto contigerit attemptari, cassum,
irritum, et vacuum ac pro infecto penitus habeatur.

Commissio capitulo ad corrigendum comperta in
visitacione domini.

[Delivery of comperta by the archbishop for correction by the
chapter, 23 June, 1416.]

Henricus, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis capitulo ecclesie
nostre cathedralis Ebor', decanatu eiusdem vacante, salutem,
etc. Tenorem et formam composicionis inter bone memorie
Willelmum de Melton', archiepiscopum Ebor', et capitulum
qui tune fuerint, sub* modo et forma visitacionis in vos
capitulum faciende et exercende olim inite, et auctoritate
apostolica confirmate, si, prout, et quatenus artemur et
teiiemur, sequi volentes [f. 56 d], comperta in visitacione
nostra nuper et vltimo in et penes vos exercita atque facta,
in cedula presentibus inclusa contenta, quibuscumque in
compertis ipsis aut eorum aliquo que ad destitucionem
canonicorum de suis canonicatibus et prebendis et supra
tendunt, seu tendere poterunt aut debebunt, nobis et
dignitati nostre semper saluis, mittimus vobis corrigenda
infra tempus in dicta composicione prefinitum. Data Ebor'
vicesimo tercio die mensis Junij, anno Domini millesimo
ccccmo sextodecimo et nostre translacionis iiono.

DETECTA f IN VISITACIONE CAP1TULI ECCLESIE NOSTRE EBOE,'.

[Schedule of comperta sent to the chapter for correction
as above. ,]

A. | Memorandum de prouidendo remedium contra
impedientes, perturbantes palam et per insidias, arrestas,
incarceraciones et amerciamenta, libertates et iurisdicciones
domini archiepiseopi et capituli Ebor', curie et audiencie
eorundem, in ecclesia, cimiterio et clauso ecclesie Ebor*
predicte.

* Sic.

f Detecta are matters discovered to the bishop, comperta are those discovered
by him. As the comperta, however, are founded upon the detecta, the one word
is occasionally used for the other.

J The meaning of the letters A and B is explained in the answer returned
by the chapter below.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 199

Item de prouidendo remedio contra exigentes,extorquentes
theolonea et alia indebita a domino archiepiscopo, decano,
capitulo et canonicis seu tenentibus liberis et natiuis, et
imparcaciones animalium eorundem contra libertates, im-
munitates et priuilegia eorundem. B.

Item de prouidendo ne hospicia seu maiisa quarumcumque
dignitatum, prebendarum seu vicariorurn, infra clausum
situata, quomodolibet dimittantur seu locentur aliquibus
personis, nisi de sciencia, consensu et auctoritate capituli
prouideatur de ocupacione* eorundem, vt congruencius
poterit de eisdem prouideri.

Item de prouidendo ne inulieres coniugate seu alie moram
trahant in hospiciis seu mansis supradictis, aut infra clausum
dicte ecclesie. Item ne hospicia publica, pandoxaciones seu
taberne fiant in locis supradictis.

Item de acceleracione fabrice ecclesie Ebor', et ammouendo
impedimenta per questores, etc., ac alios.f

Item de statuto terrarum, tenementorum et tenencium
domini archiepiscopi, ecclesie, capitnli, dignitatnm, preben-
darum ante hec tempora edito, propter alienaciones, secciones
et diuisiones declarando et reformando. Item de remedio
prouidendo quod obligati ad residenciamresideant vt tenentur.
Item quod hij qui receperunt summas vel sunt recepturi pro
reparacionibus compellantur huiusmodi summas apponere et
conuertere ad vsus reparacionum antedictarum.

Item quod habentes dignitates seu prebendas ad hospicia
et mansa sua reficienda infra certum tempus racionabiliter
moderandum compellantur.

[Return of corrections by the chapter, 2 April, 1417.1

Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et domino, domino
Henrico, etc., capitulum ecclesie Ebor', decano eiusdem in
remotis agente,J reuerencias et honores debitos tanto patri.
Litteras vestras reuerendas vicesimo tercio die mensis
Junij vltinio preterito recepimus in hec verba : Henricus,
etc., dilectis in Christo filiis decano§ et capitulo ecclesie
nostre cathedralis Ebor', decanatu eiusdem vacante, salutem,

* Sic.

f It is to this year (22 Dec. 1418—22 Dec. 1416) that the first perfect fabric
roll of the church of York belongs. £629 6*. 5d. was spent ; the fabric fund
shews a surplus of £85 IQs.Sd. (York Fabric Rolls, pp. 28—36, and see note on
pp. 28— 30).

J Thomas Polton had been elected dean on 23 July, 1416 : the election was
confirmed by the archbishop on 3 August.

§ Sic,

200 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

etc. Tenorem et formam composicionis inter bone mernorie
Willelmum Melton' arcliiepiscopum Ebor' et capitulum qui
tune fuerint sub* modo et forma visitacionis, etc., vt supra
in isto folio vsque Et nostre translacionis nono. Quibus
quidem litteris vestris et cedula in eisdem inclusa corain
nobis in pleno loci capitulo visis, perlectis et plenius
intellect^ articulisque in dicta cedula contentis cum
maturitate debita recensitis, ipsos articulos omnes et
singulos, quatenus, attentis condicionibns person arum, et
rerum quas articuli predicti concernunt, ac negociorum
et temporis qualitate, potuimus, infra decem menses
secundum dicte composicionis exigenciam debite coireximus,
quatenus dictoruin articulorum qualitas requirebat, exceptis
articulis de prouidendo remedium contra impedientes,
perturbantes palam et per insidias, etc., vt supra in eodem
latere ad signum A vsque ad signum B, videlicet, immunitates
et priuilegia eorundem, necnon de acceleracione fab rice
ecclesie Ebor' et ammouendo impedimenta per questores,
etc., ac alios, ac eciam de statute terrarum, teneinentorum,
etc., vsque declarandum et reformandum, de quibus
correcciones plene et perfecte facere non potuimus, sed
parati erimus vobiscum illos articulos in dorno capitulari
Ebor' in forma dicte composicionis corrigere et vices
apponere, cum diligencia qua potuimus, adiutrices. Ad
ecclesie vestre sancte regimen dirigat gressus vestros gracia
Saluatoris. Data in domo nostra capitulari, secundo die
mensis Aprilis anno Domini m° cccc"10 decimo septimo.

[f. 55.] 22. VISITACIO ECCLESIE BEVERLACENSIS.

[Notice of visitation of Beverley minster on 10 Aug., 1416
(10 July, 1416).]

Henricus, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis capitulo ecclesie
nostre collegiate beati Johannis Beuerlaci, salutem, etc.
Quia intendimus per Dei graciam die Lune, videlicet decimo
die mensis Augusti proxime future, vos canonicos in capitulo
vestro Beuerlaci, necnon vicarios et clericos dicte ecclesie, ac
omnes alios et singulos dicte ecclesie qualitercumque
intitulatos seu promotes, aut in eadem quomodolibet
ministrantes, ad recreacionem animarum vestrarum et
suaruni, annuente Domino, intueri et visitacionis officium
apud vos et eos in debita iuris forma exercere, vobis firmiter
iniungendo mandamus, vosque intitulatos, promotes, necnon

* Sic,

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 201

clericos, vicarios et ministrantes supra dictos tenore
presencium peremptorie citamus quatinus vos omnes et
singuli et ipsi, dicto die Lune, cum continuacione et
prorogacione dierum sequencium si oporteat, coram nobis vel
commissariis nostris personas vestras et suas ibidem, et
votiuam presenciam filiali promptitudine pretendatis et
pretendant, ac quilibet vestrum et suorum tempestiue
pretend at, visitacionem nostram, nostra salubria monita,
correcciones et iniungenda cum debita et deuota reuerencia,
prout ad* vos et ipsos communiter et diuisiin premissa
concernunt, suscepturi, litteras ordinum vestrorum et
suorum, ac titulos quos habere pretenditis et pretendunt in
prebendis [f. 55 d.] et beneficiis, ac officiis suisque obtinetis
et obtinent, et quilibet vestrum obtinet, in ecclesia nostra
antedicta, exhibituri, ostensuri vlteriusque facturi que vobis
et ipsis vtinam proficiant, sicut pie cupimus, ad salutem. Ad
quos diem, prorogacionem et locum confratres vestros nunc
absentes, nee n on omnes et singulos vicarios et clericos
promotos ac ministrantes huiusmodi, ad faciendum omnia et
singula premissa? prout vos et ipsos ac eorum quemlibet
concernunt, legitime conuocetis, nos super premissis
certificantes ad dictos diem et locum per litteras vestras
patentes, sigillo vestro communi commuiiitas, barum seriem
et nomina canonicorum, vicariorum, clericorum et minis tro-
rum omnium dicte ecclesie nostre distincte et plenarie
continentes. Data apud Cawod' decimo die mensis Julij,
anno Domini millesimo ccccmo xvj, et nostre translacionis
nono.

II.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OE
ARCHBISHOP KEMPE.

1. ARCHIDIACONATUS EICHMONDIE.
Premunicio visitacionis archidiaconatus Richmondie.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of Richmond,
22 June, 1428.]

Johannes, permissione diuina Ebor' archiepiscopus,
Anglie primas et apostolice sedis legatus, dilecto in Cbristo

* Sic.

202 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

filio archidiacono nostro Richemondie seu eius official!,,
salutem, graciam et benediceionem. Quia clemm et populum
decanatuuin Amondernes', LonesdaP, Kendal', JTournes,
Coupland', Richemond', Catric' et Pontisburg', archidi-
aconatus vestri Richemondie, nostre diocesis, pro subditorum
ipsius archidiaconatus animarum salute, diebus et locis in
sedula* presentibus aniiexa specificatis, intendimus per Dei
g'raciam visitare, vobis mandamus quatinus omnes et singulos
rectores [etc., as in Bowet's notice for the archdeaconry of
York, p. 155 above. There are several minor variations of
phrase and the order of words, and " dictorum decanatuum "
and " in dictis decanatibus " are substituted for " dicti
archidiaconatus," Cfin dicto archidiaconatu." The epithet
" ordinariam " is omitted after " visitacionem.."t To the
clause of inhibition, after (f inhibemus," is added " et per
vos omnibus et singulis ministris vestris, ac aliis quibus ius
in hac parte exigit inhiberi volumus et mandamus,"
involving the additional verbs " attemptent " and " faciant,"
as in Bowet's notice for the spirituality of Howden, p. 176
above. Dated "inhospicio nostro prope Westmonasterium,"
22 June, 1428].

Certificatorium eiusdem.

[Certificate of receipt and execution of the archbishop's
mandate, 20 Aug., 1428.]

Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et domino, domino
Johanni, permissione diuina Ebor' archiepiscopo, Anglie
primati et apostolice sedis legato, vester deuotus films,
officialis domini archidiaconi Richemondie, obedienciam,
reuerencias et honores. Litteras vestras reuerendas cum.
vna cedula eisdem annexa, progressum visitacionis vestre in
archidiaconatu Richemondie in se coiitinente, vicesimo
octauo die mensis Julij,^ anno Domini niillesimo ccccmo
vicesimo octauo ea qua decuit reuerencia recepimus, tenorem
qui sequitur continentes : Johannes, permissione diuina, etc.,
vt supra. Quarum auctoritate litterarum vestrarum
reuer end arum omnes et singulos rectores, vicarios, et
capellanos parochiales ecclesiarum decanatuum [etc., as in
the visitation notice] citauimus et citari fecinius. [The
rest follows the text of the visitation notice, with the

* Sic.

t The archdeacon of Richmond was ordinary within the limits of his arch-
deaconry.
Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 203

necessary changes of persons, pronouns, etc. The mention
of the archbishop's schedule is followed by the clause
" prout in cedula presentibus annexa continetur, ac in aliis
cedulis vobis ve* commissariis aliis diebus et locis in
progressu visitacionis vestre specificatis per iios tradendis et
liberandis plenius apparebit." The inhibition of the arch-
deacon's ministers is duly recorded. For the clause " De die
vero " is substituted " Et sic predictas litteras vestras
reuerendas sumus in omnibus debite executi. In cuius rei
testimonium sigillum officij nostri presentibus apposuimus."
Dated at Bichmond, 20 Aug., 1428.]

Progressus visitacionis in archidiaconatu Kichemondie.
Decanatus Pontisburgij.* ,

[Schedule with details of visitation.]

[1st day (24 Aug., 1428) : Goldsborouyh.~\ Venerabilis in
Christo pater et dominus, dominus Johannes. Dei gracia
Ebor' archiepiscopus, etc., die Martis, videlicet vicesimo
quarto mensis Augusti, anno Domini millesimo cccc"10
vicesimo octauo supradicto, in ecclesia parochiali de
Goldesburgh',t dicti archidiaconatus, diuina fauente
clemencia, visitabit eandein, necnon ecclesiam de Aluerton'
Mallurry,J ecclesiam de Kyrkby super moram,§ vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Cundall,|| ecclesiam de Marton',^
vicariam eiusdem. Et eadem die idem venerabilis pater
visitabit domum sancti Eoberti iuxta Knaresburgh'** et
pernoctabit ibidem.

[2d day (25 Aug.) : Ripley.~] Die Mercurijff eiusdem
mensis idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de RipleyJJ visitabit
eandem, necnon ecclesiam de Farnham,§§ vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Qwyxley,|||| vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de

* Sic.

f Three churches in Claro. Kirkby Hill and Cuudall in Hallikeld wapen-

take.

J Allerton Mauleverer, app. to A Her ton priory : no vicarage ordained.

§ Kirkby Hill, app. to Newburgh priory.

|| App. to Newburgh priory : no vicarage ordained.

«|[ Marton-cum-Grafton, app. to Malton priory.
** See notice on p. 210 below,
ft Sic.

it All eight churches in Claro wapentake. The vicarage of Great Ouseburn
is not mentioned.

§§ App. to Beauvale priory.

|||| App. to St. Robert's, Knaresborough.

204 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Stanley,* ecclesiam de Copgraue, ecclesiam de Vsburn',f
ecclesiam de Staveley, ecclesiam de Hamerton'^J et
pernoctabit in monasterio de FontLbns§ ; et abbas et
conuentus procurabunt ipsnm in victualibus racione prirni
aduentus sui.

Decanatus Catric'.

[3d day (26 Aug.) : Wensley.] Die Jouis, xxvj die mensis
predicti, prefatus venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali de
Wenselawe|| visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Grenton',^| vicariam eiusdem,, ecclesiam de Douiiham,"**"
ecclesiam de Westwytton',ft ecclesiam de Aykeskarth'5U
vicariam eiusdem, et in iiocte erit in monasterio de
Couerham§§ ; et abbas et conuentus procurabunt eum in
victualibus racione prirni aduentus sui.

[4th day (27 Aug.) : Spennithorne.^ Die Veneris, videlicet
xxvij die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Spenythorne|||| visitabit eandem, necnon
ecclesiam de Hawkeswell', ecclesiam de Couerham,H
ecclesiam de Midelham, ecclesiam de Fyng-ale, ecclesiam de
Thorneton' Whatlawes, et pernoctabit in monasterio de
JeroualP***; et abbas et conuentus ibidem ipsum procura-
bunt in victualibus racione primi aduentus sui.

[5th day (28 Aug.) : Patrick Brompton.] Die Sabbati,
videlicet xxviij0 die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater
in ecclesia parochiali de Patrykbrompton'fff visitabit

* South Stainley, app. to Bridlington priory : no vicarage seems to have
been ordained.

t Ouseburn magna, app. to Egglestone abbey.

j Kirk Haramerton, app. to Nun Monkton priory : no vicarage ordained.
§ See notice below, p. 210.

|| All five churches in Hang "West wapentake. Part of Grinton parish is in
Gilling West.

^[ App. to Bridlington priory.
** App. to Coverham : no vicarage ordained,
tt App. to Jervaulx abbey : no vicarage ordained.
J j Recently (1423) app. to Jervaulx abbey.
§§ See memorandum of notice, p. 210 below.

|| || Five churches in Hang West : Thornton Watlass in Hang East.
Tir App. to Coverham abbey : no vicarage ordained.
*** See notice on p. 210 below.

ttt Patrick Brompton and Well are in Hang East wapentake : part of
Patrick Brompton is in Hang West. Burneston and Pickhill are in Hallikeld :
part of Pickhill parish is in Allertoushire. The vicarage of Well is not
mentioned.

VISITATION "DoctrtftENTs. 205

eandem, necnon ecclesiam de Well',* ecclesiam de
Breiiyston^f vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Pykall'.J

[6th day (29 Aug.) : Bedale.] Die xxix§ eiusdem mensis,
idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali de Bedall'||
visitabit eandem.

[7th day (30 Aug.) : West Tanfiekl] Die Lune, videlicet
xxx die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Tanfeld'l visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam
de Wath', ecclesiam de Kyrtlyngton'.

[8th day (31 Aug.) : Gatterick.] Die Martis, videlicet
vltimo die mensis predict!, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Catryk'** visitabit eandem, necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Scurueton',ft ecclesiam de
Estwytton'jJJ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Thorneton'
Styward',§§ ecclesiam de Kyrkby Metham,|||| vicariam
eiusdem, et pernoctabit in nionasterio sancte Agathe iuxta
Ricbemond'TT ; et abbas et conuentus procurabunt eum in
victualibus racione primi aduentus sui.

Decanatus Richernond'.

[9th day (I Sept.) : Barningham.'] Die Mercurij, videlicet
primo die Septembris, prefatus venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Bernyngham*"**" visitabit eandem, necnon
ecclesiam sancti Runibaldi,ttf ecclesiam de Stretford'4$|
ecclesiam de Rokeby,§§§ ecclesiam de Bowes,|||||| ecclesiam

* App. to Well hospital.
t App. to St. Mary's abbey, York.
J Pickhill. App. to St. Leonard's hosp., York.
§ Sic.

|| In Hang East : part of the parish is in Hallikeld.

IF All three churches in Hallikeld vvapentake : part of Wath parish is in
Allertonshire.

** Three churches in Hang East : East Witton and Thornton Steward in
Hang West. Catterick was app. to St. Mary's abbey, York. The vicarage of
Thornton Steward not mentioned.
ft Scruton.

jj App. to Jervaulx abbey.
§§ App. to the archdeacon of Richmond.
ill) App. to the priory of St. John of Jerusalem in England.
HT See notice on p. 210 below.
*** All six churches in Gilling West.
ttt Romaldkirk.

ijj Startforth, app. shortly after this date to Egglestone abbey.
§§§ App. to Egglestone abbey.
till || App. to St. Leonard's hospital, York : no vicarage ordained*

£06

de Bryggenhall',* vicariam eiusdem, et pernoctabit in
monasterio de Egleston' ; et abbas et conuentus ibidem
ipsum procurabunt in victualibus racione primi aduentus sui.

[10th day (2 Sept.) : Kirkby Ravenswortli.~] Die Jouis,
ij° die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia de
Kyrkby Kaueiis worth 'f visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam
<je WyclifF, ecclesiam de Melsamby,J vicariam eiusdem.
ecclesiam de Manfeld',§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Cowton'. ||

[llth day (3 Sept.) : Croft. ,] Die Veneris, iij° die mensis
predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial! de
OroftH visitabit eandem, necnon vicariam de Cowton',
ecclesiam de Midelton',** vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Smeton', et pernoctabit in prioratu sancti Martini iuxta
Kichemond'.tt

[]_2th day (4 Sept.) : Visitation of St. Martin's priory,
Richmond, etc.'] Die Sabbati, iiijto die eiusdem mensis, idem
venerabilis pater visitabit prioratum sancti Martini predictum
ac hospitalia sancti Nicbolai et sancti Egidij. Eodem die
idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial! de Richemond'J {
visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de Ayiiderby, ecclesiam
de Mersk', ecclesiam de Danby,§§ ecclesiam de Langton',
ecclesiam de Kyrkbywysk', ecclesiam de Eseby,|||| vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Marrik'.^H[

Decanatus de Lonesdale.

[13^ day (6 Sept.) : Bentham.] Die Lune, sexto die
mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochial!

* App. to St. Leonard's hospital, York.

f Three churches in Gilling West : Manfield and East Cowton in Gilling
East. Part of Manfield parish is in Gilling East.
£ A presentable rectory.
2 App. to St. Agatha's abbey.

jj East Cowton, app. to Bridlington priory : the vicarage was visited on the
following day.

If All four churches in Gilliug East : the outlying parts of Smeaton parish
in Allertoushire belonged to the archdeaconry of Cleveland.
** Middleton Tyas, app. to St. Mary's abbey, York.
ft See notice, p. 210 below.

j| Three churches (Richmond, Marske, and Marrick) in Gilling "West, the
other four in Gilling East. Part of Easby parish is in Gilling West, and part
of Kirkby Wiske in Birdforth.
§§ Danby Wiske.
Illl App. to St. Agatha's abbey.
lf^[ App. to St. Agatha's abbey : no vicarage ordained.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 20?

de Bentham* visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Thorneton'j ecclesiam de Tatham, ecclesiam de Claughton',
ecclesiam de Mellyng',f vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Tunstall',J vicariam eiusdem, et pernoctabit in prioratu de
Horneby ; et procurabunt ipsum ibidem in victualibus
racione primi aduentus sui.

[14ith day (7 Sept.) : Kirkby Lonsdale.^ Die Martis, vij
die mensis predicti, idem veiierabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Kyrkby Lonesdale§ visitabit eandem, necnon
vicariam ibidem, ecclesiam de Whittyngton', ecclesiam de
Sadbergh',11 vicariam eiusdeni.

Decanatus de Kendale.

[15th day (8 Sept.) Warton.'] Die Mercurij, viij die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Warton'H visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de Hesham,
ecclesiam de Burton'.

[f. 211.] [16th day (9 Sept.) : Heversham.] Die Jouis,
ix die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Euershaui*"* visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam
de Bethom, ecclesiam de Wynandermer'.

[17th day (10 Sept.) : Kendal.] Die Veneris, xrao die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Kyrkby in Kendaleff visitabit eandem, necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Grismere.t+

* Benthatn and Thornton in Ewcross wapentake, Yorks : the other four
churches in Lonsdale hund., south of the sands, Lanes.

f App. to Croxton abbey, Leices., of which Hornby priory was a cell.

j App. to Croxton abbey, Leices.

§ Kirkby Lonsdale in Lonsdale ward, Westmorland ; Whittington in
Lonsdale hund., south of the sands, Lanes. ; Sedbergh in Ewcross wapentake,
Yorks. Kirkby Lonsdaie was app. to St. Mary's abbey, York.

|| App. to Coverham abbey.

f Warton and Heysham in Lonsdale hund., south of the sands, Lanes.
Burton in Kendal and Lonsdale wards, Westmorland : part of the parish in
Lonsdale huud., Lanes.

** Heversham. All three churches in Kendal ward, Westmorland,
ft Kendal. Both churches in Kendal ward, Westmorland. Kendal was app.
to St. Mary's abbey, York.
Grasmere.

208 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Decanatus Amondernes'.

[18th day (11 Sept.) : Lancaster.'] Die Sabbati, xj° die
eiusdern inensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Loncastre* visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Bibchestre, ecclesiam de Chippyng', ecclesiam de Gayre-
stang',f vicariam eiusdem.

[20th day (12 Sept.): Cockersand abbey.] Die dominica,
xij° die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater erit in.
monasterio de Cokersand' ;| et abbas et conuentus procura-
bunt ipsum in victualibus racione primi aduentus sui.

[21st day (13 Sept.) : Preston.] Die Lune, xiij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Preston',§ visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam sancti
Michaelis.||

[22d day (14 Sept.) : Kirkham.] Die Martis, xiiijto die
predicti mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Kyrkham^[ visitabit eandem, necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Pulton',** vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Cokerham, ecclesiam de Lethome.ff

Decanatus de Fournes'.

[23d day (15 Sept.) : Conishead priory.] Die Mercurij,
xvmo (Jie eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater transibitJJ
ad prioratuni de Connyngeshede, et sic dies vacuus.

[24th day (16 Sept.) : Visitation of Conishead priory .] Die
Jouis, xvjto die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater
visitabit prioratuni de Connyngeshede.§§

* Lancaster is in Lonsdale hund., south of the sands; Chipping and Eib-
chester in Blackburn hund. ; Garstang in Amounderness hund., Lanes. Parts
of Lancaster and K/ibchester parishes are in Amounderuess. The vicarage of
Lancaster, app. to Sion abbey, is not mentioned, but may not have been
ordained till later.

f Garstang, app. to Cockersand abbey.
j See notice on p. 210 below.
§ Both churches in Amounderuess huud., Lanes.
l! St. Michael's-on-Wyre.

\ Three churches in Amounderness hund. ; Cockerham in Lonsdale huud.,
south of the sands, Lanes. Kirkham was app. to Vale Royal abbey, Cheshire.
** Poulton-le-Fylde, app. to Sion abbey, Middlesex,
ft Lytham.

t+ The passage across Morecambe bay, whether by water or the sands, is
referred to.

§§ See notice below, p. 210.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 209

[25th day (17 Sept.) : Aldingham.] Die Veneris, xvij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Aldyngham* visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Vluerston',t ecclesiam de Penyton', ecclesiam de Dalton',J
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Vrsewyk', vicariam eiusdem,
et pernoctabit in prioratu de Cartmale.

[26th day (18 Sept.) : Visitation of Cartmel priory, etc. ,] Die
Sabbati, xviij die mensis predicti, idem venerabilis pater in
prioratu de Cartmale§ visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Cartmale.

[27th day (19 Sept.) : Furness abbey.] Die dominica,
xix die eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater erit in
monasterio de Fournes';|| et abbas et conuentus procurabunt
ipsum in victualibus racione primi adueritus sui.

Decanatus Coupland'.

[28th day (20 Sept.) : Egremont.] Die Lune, xxmo die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de Egremond't visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de Mul-
castre,** ecclesiam de Punsonby, ecclesiam de Irton',tt eccle-
siam de Lamplogh', ecclesiam de Deeu', ecclesiam de Gosford',
ecclesiam de BothellMj ecclesiam de Why ttyngham,§§ eccle-
siam de Millom',|| || vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Whit bek^lf
et pernoctabit in prioratu sancte Bege.

[29th day (21 Sept.) : Visitation of St. Bees priory, etc.,
Calder abbey.] Die Martis, xxj*** mensis predicti, idem

* All five churches in Lonsdale hund., north of the sands. Lanes.
f Ulverston and Pennington were both app. to Conishead priory: no
vicarages ordained.

J Dalton-in-Furness and Urswick were both app. to Furness abbey.
§ See notice below, p. 210. Cartmel church, in Lonsdale hund., north of the
sands, Lanes., was app. to Cartmel priory : no vicarage ordained.
|| See notice on p. 210 below.

if All eleven churches in Allerdale ward, above Derwent, Cumberland.
** Muncaster and Ponsonby were both app. toCouishead priory : no vicarages
ordained.

tf Irton was app. to Seaton priory : no vicarage ordained.
JJ Bootle.
§§ Whicham.
j !| App. to Furness abbey.

^TT App. to Conishead priory : no vicarage ordained.
*** Sic,

210 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

venerabilis pater in ''predicto prioratu sancte Bege* visitabit
eundem, necnon ecclesiam parochialem sancte Bege, et
pernoctabit in monasterio de Caldre ;f et abbas et conuentus
ibidem procurabunt ipsum in victualibus racione primi
aduentus sui.

[30th day (22 Sept.) : Brigham.] Die Mercurij, xxij° die
eiusdem mensis, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia parochiali
de BrygharnJ visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesiam de
Wyrkyngton', ecclesiam de Bekermet,§ ecclesiam de Haryng-
ton', ecclesiam de Moresby, ecclesiam de Hale,|| ecclesiam de
Waberthawyt, ecclesiam de Cornay, ecclesiam de Distyng-
ton'.

[A notice, without marginal title, follows of the visitation
of St. Martin's priory by Richmond, a dependency of the
Benedictine abbey of St. Mary, York, for Saturday,
4 September 1428, dated at Scrooby, 17 August. The form
used is that of Bowet's notice to Healaugh park, p. 166
above. Followed by memoranda of similar notices to the
Trinitarian minister and brethren of St. Robert's, Knares-
borough (24 Aug.), the Augustinian priors and convents of
Conishead (16 Sept.) and Cartmel (18 Sept.), and the
Benedictine prior and convent of St. Bees, another priory of
St. Mary's, York (21 Sept.).

These are followed by a notice, also without title, to the
Cistercian abbot and convent of Fountains, for Wed.,
25 August, dated at Scrooby, 17 August, as in Bowet's
notice to Kirkstall, p. 165 above. Followed by memoranda
of similar notices to exempt houses, viz., the Premon-
stratensian abbots and convents of Coverham (26 Aug.),
St. Agatha's by Richmond (31 Aug.), Egglestone (1 Sept.),
and Cockersand (12 Sept.), and the prior and convent of
Hornby (6 Sept.), and the Cistercian abbots and convents
of Jervaulx (27 Aug.), Furness (19 Sept.), and Calder
(21 Sept.).]

* See notice below. St. Bees church, in Allerdale ward, above Derwent,
Cumb., was app. to St. Bees priory : no vicarage ordained.

f See notice below.

t All nine churches in Allerdale ward, above Derwent, Cumberland.

§ Both churches of Beckermet, St. Bridget's and St. John's, were app. to
Calder abbey : no vicarages ordained. Cleator and Drigg, also app. to Calder
abbey, are not mentioned.

I App. to Conishead priory : no vicarage ordained.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 211

Acta visitacionis reuerendissimi in Christo patris et doming
domini Johannis, Dei gracia Ebor' archiepiscopi, etc.,
diebus et locis infra scriptis archidiaconatum suum
Bicheinondie, etc., clerum et populum eiusdem actualiter
visitantis, anno Domini supradicto.

[Process and other details of the above visitation
(24—26 March, 1428).]

Die Martis, videlicet vicesimo quarto die meiisis Augusti,
anno Domini supradicto, idem reuerendissimus pater ingressus
est ecclesiam parochialem de Goldesburgh', dicti archidia-
conatus ; et proposito verbo Dei, cuius thema fuit, Egressus
circuit regiones Egipti,* porrectoque certificatorio cuius tenor
inferius describitur et plene perlecto, vocatisque clero et
populo ad diem et locum predictos gracia visitacionis in eos
ibidem exercende citatis, comparuerunt coram prefato
reuerendissimo patre domini Robertus Ripon', ecclesie
parochialis de Goldesburgh' capellanus parochialis, f Radul-
phus de Wytton', capellanus parochialis ecclesie parochialis
de Aluerton Malurry, Eicardus Bolton', capellanus eiusdem
ecclesie, J prior et conuentus de Nouo burgo, ecclesiam de
Kyrkby super moram in proprios vsus obtinentes, per quem-
dam concanonicum suum eorum procuratorem sufficienter
et legitime constitutum, f rater Johannes Houyngham,
vicarius eiusdem ecclesie, § Johannes Burton', vicarius de
Knaresburgh',|| Johannes Kayn', Thomas Grantham et
Willelmus Poklyngton', capellani ibidem, Thomas Skelton,
vicarius ecclesie de Marton', Eicardus Lepar', capellanus
parochialis de Cundale,^[ Thomas Annyngson', vicarius de
Hunsyngor',** ac Johannes Smyth* de Goldysburgh/, Thomas
Buryes de Aluerton Malurry, Henricus Best de Kyrkby

* This text does not appear to be in the Vulgate. Dr. Fowler suggests that
it may have been invented for the occasion.

f Ripon was the chaplain put in by William Baumburgh, the rector, to
serve the cure. In Baumburgh's will, 1434-5, he leaves £10 to Sir Eobert Ripon
to celebrate mass for his soul (MS. Harl. 6978, p. 31).

J Bolton held the chantry, a presentable benefice, in Allerton Mauleverer
church at a later date. The archdeacon, jure devoluto, collated it to him
24 May, 1437 (ibid., p. 32), but this was presumably a second institution.
Wytton was merely the capellanus amotivus or conduct who served the cure.

§ Hovyngham died before 11 May, 1440 (ibid., p. 35).

|| Burton died before 28 Nov., 1429 (ibid., p. 27).

^f The prior and convent of Newburgh, who appointed one of their number
to the vicarage of Kirkby Hill, seem to have served the church of Cundall, in
which no vicarage was ordained, by a secular chaplain.

** Thomas Anyngson, chaplain, inst. to Hunsingore vicarage 9 May, 1424,
on the pres. of brother Henry Crounhale, preceptor of Eagle, locum tenens
of brother William Hulles, prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England
(MS. Harl, 6978, p. 24).

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super moram, Thomas Spalde de Cundale, Johannes Clerk
de Marton', Christoforus Clerk et Johannes Mason' de
Knaresburgh', ac Johannes Clerk de Hunsyngor' ecclesiarum
clerici parochiales, separatim et personaliter, tactis sacro-
sanctis euangeliis, prefato reuerendissimo patri prestiterunt,
et eorum quilibet obedienciam prestitit corporalem ; domi-
numque Willelmum Bawmburgh', rectorem ecclesie de
Goldesburgh' se dicentem,* ac priorem et conuentum de
Malton' ecclesiam parochialem de Marton',, ac magistrum et
fratres sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani ecclesiam de Hun-
syngor', in proprios vsus, vt asseritur, obtinentes, ad hos
diem et locum citatos, preconizatos, diucius expectatos et
nullo modo comparentes dominus pronuncia.uit contumaces,
pena sibi reseruata. Et prefati domini Robertus Kipon',
Radulphus Witton', frater Johannes Houyiigham, Eicardus
Lepar', Thomas Skelton', Johannes Burton', Johannes Kayn',
Thomas Grantham, Willelmus Poklyngton', litteras ordinum
et titulos incumbencie exhibuerunt sufficienter, exhibitis
nomine domini Willelmi Bawmburgh' littera ordinis presbi-
teratus et titulo incumbencie in suis substancialibus rasis et
multum viciosis et suspectis.

GOLDESBURGH'. Perochianif dicunt quod vestiarium
ecclesie ibidem patitur defectum in tectura, et credunt quod
refeccio eiusdem pertinet ad rectorem, eo quod predecessor
rectoris moderni| remoneri fecit dictum vestiarium a parte

* William Baumburgh was inst. to Goldsborough on the pres. of Richard
Goldesburgh, 22 April, 1425, on exchange of the vicarage of St. Mary Biehophill
junior, York, with Thomas Espham (ibid., p. 25). He appears among the
legatees of Stephen le Scrope, archdeacon of Richmond, who, as prebendary of
Knaresborough, had an interest in the church and parish of Bishophill, in 1418
(Test. JSbor., I., 387, and see note in appendix) ; his bequest was a silver
covered cup with the word Jesus on the top of the cover. A former rector of
Goldsborough, William Alnwick, was one of Scrope's executors. Baumburgh
died before 11 April, 1435, when his successor at Goldsborough was inst.
(MS. Harl. 6978, f. 31 d). His will (ibid., p. 31) bears date 6 March, 1434-5,
and was proved at Norwich 23 March, 1434-5, and at York 28 March, 1435. At
this time he was also rector of Risby, Suffolk, which he probably obtained by
virtue of a papal dispensation of 6 March, 1426-7; to hold an incompatible
benefice for ten years with Goldsborough (Cat. Papal Letters, vii., 532). He
left £10 to fche fabric of Goldsborough church and £5 for a cope for the same,
100s. to Bishophill church, and 10 marks to the church of Bamburgh. He
probably was a native of Baumber in Lincolnshire, as Baumburgh or Bawmburgh
is the most usual form of his name.

t Sic.

J I.e., Thomas Espham, chaplain, inst. on the pres. of Richard Goldesburgh,
kt., 30 July, 1421 (MS. Harl. 6978, p. 22). As already noted, he exch. Golds-
borough for the vicarage of St. Mary Bishophill junior, York, in 1425. His
immediate predecessor at Goldsborough was William Alnwick, afterwards bishop
of Norwich and Lincoln, who appears to have resigned Goldsborough on obtaining
the archdeaconry of Salisbury.

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oriental! cancelli ecclesie predicte vsque ad locum in quo
modo situatur ex parte boriali cancelli predict!, et tutis
temporibus suis, quociens opus fuit, sumptibus suis propriis
construxit et reparauit.

Item dicunt quod dictus dominus Willelmus Bawmburgh'
non residet in beneficio suo nisi per vices.

Idem rector dimittit ecclesiam suam ad firmam Oliuero
Williamson' et Thome Chapman' laicis.

Item dicunt quod crismatorium* in ecclesia predicta
multum vile est, propter quod dominus illud suspendebat.

Item dicunt quod cancellus in coopertura et nauis in
meremio, tectura et fenestris vitreis, plures paciuntur
defeotus, et quod campanile eiusdemf non est sufficiens,
tamen parochiani inceperunt illud de nouo construere.

ALUERTON MALURRY. Perochiani dicunt quod infra
perochiam suam oinnia bene.

KYRKBY SUPER MORAM. Perochiani dicunt quod
Johannes Houyngham de Kyrkby recusauit soluere decimas
arietum suorum hoc anno continue infra eandem parochiani
depascencium, et adhuc recusat.

Item dicunt quod Johannes Maysyng' recusauit hoc anno
soluere decimas quadi agesimales, denarios beati Petri et
denarios carucat' et adhuc recusat.

CUNDALE. Perochiani dicunt quod infra parochiani suam
de Cundale omnia bene.

MARTON. Perochiani dicunt quod omnia bene infra
parochiam suam.

KNARESBURGH'. Parochiani dicunt quod nauis ecclesie
ibidem plures patitur defectus in meremio et coopertura, sic
quod pluit quasi per totam nauein predictam.

Item quod campanile ibidem patitur defectum in grosso
meremio et coopertura, ita quod minatur ruinam, et fenestre
vetreej sunt fracte, et porticus eiusdem ecclesie ad ostium
australe patitur defecturn in inuris lapideis et coopertura.

* The vessel for holding " oil and cream " (oleum et chrisma), i.e. the holy
oil for baptism, the oleum infirmoruin for anointing the sick, and the chrism
or oil and balm poured into the font at baptism and used for signing the cross
on the child's head. See Rock, Church of our Fathers, ed. Hart and Frere, IV.,
89 sqq. ; Cox and Harvey, Eng. Church Furniture, pp. 51-3. The chrismatory
contained pots or separate divisions for holding the oils ; see, e.g. Wordsworth,
Salisbury Processions and Ceremonies, p. 165.

t Sie.

I Sic.

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Item dicunt quod Willelnius Slengesby exhiberet tres
lampades ardentes circa sacramentum Eukaristie in cancello
ecclesie predicte, et non exhibet, licet habeat certum
redditum ad hoc assignatum.

Item dicunt quod* [f. 212] relicta domini Briani Stapilton,
inilitis, repararet porticum et vnam fenestram vitream in
ecclesia predicta, et ad hoc habet certum redditum
assignatum ad huiusmodi onus supportandum, et hoc facere
desistit.

Item dicunt quod Robertus Stirtewaunt fornicatur cum
Agnete Kaym', ex qua suscitauit duas proles.

Item dicunt quod Johannes Blak, coniugatus, adulteratur
cum Margareta Peneson', ex qua suscitauit duas proles.

Item dicunt quod dominus Willelmus, capellanns
parochialis ibidem, fornicatur cum Johanna Wyntryngham,
quam tenet in Arkendenlofthowsf de eadem parochia.

Subsequenterque, eodem die Martis, prefatum reuerendis-
simum patrein ad domum sancti Roberti iuxta Knaresburgh',
dicti archidiaconatus Richmondie, in visitacione sua predicta
personaliter accedentem frater Robertus Horton', minister,
et fratres eiusdem domus gratanter, vt apparuit, admiserunt.
Et de mane diei sequentis, videlicet Mercurij, quinto decimo
die dicti mensis Augusti, prefati minister et confratres sui,
coram eodem reuerendissimo patre in ecclesia sua personaliter
comparentes, publice allegarunt quod ipsi, virtute cuiusdam
bulle sedis apostolice ordini dictorum ministri et fratrum
concesse, erant immunes et exempti ab omni visitacione
ordinaria, affirmantes quod dicta bulla exempcionis sue
penes principalem ministrum ordinis sui in terra Francie, in
diocesij , reman sit eius sub custodia, eidem

reuerendissimo patri cum instancia supplicando quatinus
visitacionem suam predictam in ipsos ministrum et confratres
suos ac domum suam predictam ad tempus aliquod prorogare
dignaretur, infra quod tempus ipsi minister et fratres
commode accedere possint ad ministrum suum principalem
predictum, causa impetrandi bullam predictam siue verum
transsumptum eiusdem, promittentes quod, pretextu proro-

* Blank left in the original. Mr. W. Brown identifies this lady as Agnes,
one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Goddard, knt., and widow of
Sir Brian Stapilton of Carlton, knt., who died in 1418. Her inq. p.m. is dated
1447. See Joseph Foster's Yorkshire Families.

f There is a place called Loftus Hill to the west of Arkendale in Knares-
borough parish. William did not appear among the other chaplains at the
visitation.

{ Blank left in original.

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gacionis visitacionis huiusmodi per prefatum reuerendissimum.
patrem eis concedende, ius nouum siue priuilegium aliquod
ad impediendum iurisdiccionem siue visitacionem ipsius
reuerendissiini patris ordinariam in eadem domo, pendente
prorogacione predicta, minime inipetrarent siue per alios de
nouo fa-Cerent aliqualiter impetrari. Quorum miuistri et
confratrum prefatus reuerendissimus pater supplicacionibus
deuictus, protestacione tali per eundem reuerendissimum
patrem primitus emissa, quod noil fuit nee erit inteiicionis
sue per aliquam prorogacione m predicte visitacionis sue, in
ministrum et fratres domus predicte per ipsum reuerendissi-
mum patrem iure suo ordinario exercende, preiudicium
aliquod eidem reuerendissimo patri vel ecclesie sue Ebor'
quouis modo inferatur, die tarn visitacionem suam vsque ad
primum diem mensis Septembris, qui erit in anno Domini
millesimo ccccmo vicesimo nono, ad idem* prorogando
continuauit. Et insuper, ad instantem supplicacionem
dictorum ministri et confratrum, ad exhibendum dictam
bullam pretense exempcionis sue,, siue verum transsumptum
eiusdem sub sigillo dicti episcopif consign atum, eisdem
ministro et confratribus predictum primum diem mensis
Septembris pro termino peremptorio prefixit et assignauit.

Die Mercurij, vicesimo quinto die mensis predict!,
prefatus reuerendissimus pater in ecclesia parochial! de
Riplay visitavit eandem, necnon ecclesias de Farneham,
Whixlay, Stauelay, Copgraue, Vsburn' magnam, Stanlay et
Hamerton', ac clerum et populum ecclesiarum predictarum
ac populurn ecclesie parocnialis de Knaresburgh7. Cui
quidem reuerendissimo patri verbo Dei proposito, cuius
thema fuit, Veni ponere ignem in terrain, J magister
Ricardus Kendale, rector dicte ecclesie de Riplay,§ propter
infirmitatem a personal! comparicione per dominum
excusatus, per quemdam procuratorem suum, domini
Johannes Morton', Willelmus Toueton', Robertus Cort,
Thomas Eiplay, Ricardus Walker' et Johannes Wytton',
dicte ecclesie de Riplay capellani,|| ac domini Johannes de
Skotton', vicarius de Farneham,^ Robertus Grillesland',

* Sic.

t Sic.

j St. Luke, xii., 49 : " Ignem veni mittere in terram."

§ Keudale died shortly afterwards. His successor, Richard Ingelby,
chaplain, was inst. 10 Jan. 1429-30 (MS. Harl. 6978, p. 27).

|| The number of stipendiary chaplains attached to the church of this large
parish is noticeable.

^ Scotton died before 28 July, 1434 (MS. Harl. 6978, p. 30). His successor
was Thomas Orme, chaplain, mentioned below.

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capellanus cantarie in ecclesia predicta, Thomas Orme,
eiusdem ecclesie capellanus, frater Johannes Shafthow,
vicarius de Whixlay,* Johannes Tallboys, rector ecclesie de
Stauelay,f Johannes Childe, ecclesie de Copgraue rector,:}:
frater Johannes Burbrig', vicarius ecclesie de Vsburn'
magna,§ Johannes Thexton', capellanus de Hamerton',
Thomas Smyth' et Johannes Tumour, de Moiikton'
capellani,|| necnon Thomas Clerk de Riplay, Robertus Clerk
de Farneham, Johannes Clerk de Whyxlay, Johannes Banes
de Stauelay, Johannes Clerk de Copgraue, Thomas Herrison'
de Vsburn' magna, Thomas Clerk de Hamerton' et Hugo
Clerk de Nonnionkton', ecclesiarum predictarum clerici
parochiales, in ecclesia parochiali de Riplay personaliter
comparentes, prestiterunt et eorum quilibet obedienciam
prestitit personalern. Et expostfacto idem reuerendus pater
priorem et conuentum de Bellavalle, de Farnham, et
ministrum ac fratres domus sancti Roberti iuxta Knares-
burgh', de Whyxlay ecclesias parochiales in proprios vsus, vt
asseritur, obtinentes, necnon dominum Johannem Steill',
capellanum parochialem de Stanlay, et Thomam, clericum
parochialem eiusdem ecclesie de Stanlay, ac alios quoscumque
ex causa visitacionis predicte ad hos diem et locum citatos,
preconizatos, diucius expectatos, et nullo modo seu seltem^f
minus sufficienter comparentes, reputauit contuinaces, pena
sibi reseruata. Exhibitisque per eosdem rectores, vicarios et
capellanos tune ibidem sufficienter litteris ordinum et titulis
incumbencium** suorum, excepto domino Johanne, rectore de
Stauelay, qui habet crastinum synodi proximum ad exhiben-
dum litteras ordinum et titulum incumbencie sue, ecceptisff
eciam vicario de Vsburn' magna, qui capacitatem,J^ et

* Brother John Schaftow, canon, inst. 16 May, 1428, on the pres. of the
minister and brethren of St. Eobert's, Knaresborough (ibid., p. 26).

t John Tailboys, clerk, inst. on the pres. of Henry, lord Fitzhugh, 3 April,
1395 ; died by 29 June, 1436 (ibid., pp. 16 d, 31 d).

\ John Childe, inst. 12 Oct., 1398, on the pres. of the locum tenens of the prior
of St. John of Jerusalem in England ; res. by 5 Oct. 1434 (ibid., pp. 18 d, 30 d).

§ Brother Robert (sic) Burnbrig, canon of Egglestone, inst. on the pres. of
the abbot and convent of Egglestone, 4 Nov. 1423 (ibid., p. 24).

|| Chaplains serving the altars of the church of Nun Monkton priory.

1| Sic. ** Sic. ft Sic.

Jt The capacitates of the vicars of Great Ouseburn and Whixley were the
certificates of their capacity or right of holding benefices with cures of souls
attached. Being religious, they were technically incapable of such tenure.
Special latitude, however, was allowed to canons, especially to Premonstra-
tensians, in this particular ; and the Trinitarians of Knaresborough, the
impropriators of Whixley, although their order is usually counted among those
of friars, were, like the Bonshommes of Ashridge, regarded as canons. See the
terms of Robert Schaftow's inst. in note * above.

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vicario de Whixlay, qui induccionem et capacitatem in
crastino exultacionis* sancte Crucis proximo in ecclesia
cathedrali Ebor' corarn domino seu eius commissario habent
exhibere, necnon et exceptis priore et coiiuentu de Bellavalle,
ecclesiam de Farnham, ministro et fratribus domus sancti
Koberti predicti, ecclesiam de Wbixlay, abbate et conuentu
de Egleston', ecclesiam de Vsburn' magna, priore et conuentu
de Bridelyngton', ecclesiam de Stanlay, ac priorissa et
conuentu de Nonmonkton', ecclesias de Hamerton/ et Monk-
ton' in proprios vsus, vt pretenditur, obtinentibus, quibus
omnibus et singulis prefatus reuerendissimus pater eundem
crastimmi diem exultacionisf sancte Crucis loco predicto ad
exhibendum litteras appropriacionum suarum prefixit et
assignauit.

RIPLAY. Perochiani ecclesie de Eiplay dicunt quod
omnia infra eandem parochiam suam sunt bene.

FARNHAM. Parochiani ibidem dicunt quod Willelmus
Smyth' et Alicia Verte fuerunt matrimonial iter copulati, vtj
postea, vt asseritur, propter iinpoteiiciam viri diuorciati, et
an huiusmodi diuorcium fuerit canonice celebratum necne
dubitatur.

Item Johannes Robynson', filius et executor Johannis
Robynson' defuncti, detiiiet in uianibus suis circa xvs. legatos
fabrice ecclesie de Fariiham predicta per ipsum defunctum.

WHIXLAY. Parochiani ipsius ecclesie dicunt quod fructus
eiusdem ecclesie dimittuntur ad firmam Willelmo "Willes-
thorp; laico per ministrum et fratres domus sancti Eoberti
iuxta Knaresburgh'.

Item Johannes Hochonson' de Whixlay, coniugatus,
adulteratur cum Alicia, quam tenet in Kyrkharnerton'.

STAUELAY. Parochiani dicunt quod dominus Johannes
Tailboys, rector ibidem, fomicatur cum quadam muliere
quam publice tenet in domo sua, de qua procreauit plures
proles.

COPGRATJE. Parochiani ipsius ecclesie parochialis dicunt
quod infra eandem parochiam de Copgraue omnia bene.

* Sie.

t Sic. The parish church of Nun Monkton, it may be noticed, is mentioned
neither in the schedule nor in the list of churches at the beginning of the
account of this day's visitation.

I Sic.

218 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

VSBURN' MGGNA.* Parochiani dicunt quod fructus ipsius
ecclesie dimittuntur ad firmam Willelmo Willesthorp' per
abbatem et conuentum de Egleston'.

STANELAY. Parochiani non comparuerunt. Prior et
conuentus de Bridelyngton' dimiserunt fructus ipsius ecclesie
ad firmam Ricardo Thorp' laico.

HAMERTON'. Parochiani dicunt quod Johannes Hochon-
son' de Whixlay, coiiiugatus, adulteratur cum Alicia, quam
tenet in Kyrkhamertoii'.

MONKTON'. Parochiani dicte ecclesie dicunt quod non
habetur ordinale sufficiens in eadem.

Item non habetur j lettroir,f vbi legitur euangelium in
ecclesia.

Item Robertus Tumour, coniugatus, adulteratur cum
vna muliere quam tenet in Moreinonkton'.

Die Jouis, xxvjto die mensis Augusti, anno Domini
supradicto, corain prefato reuereiidissimo patre ad ecclesiam
parochialem de Wenslaw causa visitacionis ibidem exercende
accedente, propositoque primitus verbo Dei, cuius thema
fuitj , comparuerunt personaliter in choro

ecclesie de Wenslaw predicta venerabiles viri abbates de
JeroualP§ et de Couerham,|| ac dominus Henricus Bo wet,
archidiaconus Richmondie,1[ necnon doiniiii Johannes Alwent
de Weiislaw,"** Thomas Crokar de Spenithorn',ft Johannes
Gower de HawkeswelP, Willelmus Foxholes de Fyngale,JJ
Willelmus Plumgar' de Kyrtlynton',§§ Willelmus Crake de
Tant'eld',|||| Ricardus Birnyston', niagister de Well', et
Johannes MarchalP de Scroueton'lt ecclesiarum parochialium

* Sic.

f I.e., lectern.
J Blank left in original.

§ Peter Snape, seventeenth abbot, 1425—36 (V. C. H. Yorks, iii., 142).
|| Cuthbert Rydemer (i.e., Eedmire), abbot from 1414 to circa 1430-5
(ibid., ill., 245).

f See note in appendix.

** Alwent died 1« Sept. 1430 (MS. Harl. 6978, p. 27 d).
ft Thomas Crokay (sic) died before 30 Judy, 1433 (ibid., p. 30).
it William Foxhall (sic) was inst., on the pres. of the attorneys of sir Henry
Fitzhugh, 25 Jan. 1420-1 (ibid., p. 21 d).

§§ Plumgar was inst. to Thornton Watlass, 30 Dec., 1393 (ibid., p. 16). He
became rector of Kirklington before 20 Feb., 1418-9, when he had leave of
absence from his benefice (ibid., p. 20). He died before 5 Sept., 1438 (ibid.,
p. 33).

III! William Orayke, inst. on the pres. of the attorneys of sir Henry Fitzhugh,
lord of Ravensworth, 14 Jan., 1419-20 (ibid., p. 20 d).
1FTT See note in appendix.

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rectores, assereutes se habere plenam et sufficientem
potestatem a prelatis et clero archidiaconatus predict! ad
concedendum eidem reuerendissimo patii in subsidium et
releuamen oiierum prefato reuerendissimo patri incum-
bencium, supplicaiitesque reuerendissimo patri supradicto
quatinus periculum in quo grana sua protunc per invnda-
ciones aquarum et pluuiam quasi continuant extiterunt, sic
quod nee ipsi prelati et clerus neque populus parochianorum*
suorum commode a domibus suis abesse non valebant,
considerare, quodque eisdem prelatis et clero tan tarn et
talem dominacionem et affectum paternalem, sicuti ceteris
prelatis et clero aliarum parcium sue diocesis, exhibere et
ostendere sua paternitas dignaretur.f Quibus per eundem
reuerendissinium patrem attentis et consideratis, dixit quod
se eisdem in suis desideriis redderet beneuolum et graciosum,
et ex interuallo prefati domini abbates, arcliidiaconus et
rectores, nomine suo et ceterorum prelatorum et cleri
archidiaconatus predicti, medietatem vnius decime de
quibuscumque beneficiis suis ecclesiasticis, tain spiritualibus
quam temporalibus spiritualibus annexis, pensionibusque et
porcionibus taxatis et non taxatis,, ac aliis beneficiis dicti
archidiaconatus auctoritate ordinaria intitulatis, prefato
reuerendissimo patri nomine subsidij caritatiui gratanter
et beneuole concesserunt. Qua concessione per eundem
reuerendissinium patrem paternaliter admissa, idem reueren-
dissimus pater intimauit eisdem prelatis et clero ibidem in
visitacione sua predicta personaliter existentibus quod ipse,
vt eorum archiepiscopus et diocesaiius, habuit taiitam
iurisdiccioiiem gracia visitandi prelatos et clerum archi-
diaconatus predicti, ac crimina et defectus eorundem in
huiusmodi visitacionibus suis detecta et detigendaj puniendi
et reformaiidi, sicuti in ceteris partibus sue diocesis habere
dinoscatur,§ et quod ipse reuereiidissimus pater tarn beneficio
iuris com munis quam auctoritate composicionis inter ipsum
et archidiaconum Richmondie alias super iurisdiccione
eiusdem inite et confecte,|| quociens alias partes sue diocesis,
tociens archidiaconatum predictum habet visitare et procura-
ciones ibidem effectualiter recipere a visitatis. Et subse-

* Sic.

t It appears that, on the grounds pleaded here, Kempe had accepted
subsidies from the other archdeaconries in lieu of his visitation.

t Sic.

§ Sic.

|| The terms of this agreement (July 1331) between archbishop Melton and
Robert Wodhous, archdeacon of Richmond, are printed in Historians Ch> York
(Rolls Ser.), iii., 248—50.

220 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

quenter [f. 213] idem reuerendissimus pater iniunxit et
mandauit populo parochiarum de Wenslaw, Grenton'.,
Dovraom', Westwitton' et Ayskerth' ad visitacionem pre-
dictam citato, et presenciam suam personaliter facienti,
quod ipsi vna cnm clericis suis parochialibus ad partes se
deuerterent, ac crimina et defectus, si que in personis vel
rebus infra loca quorum parochiani fuerint imminerent,
corriganda* commissariis ipsius reuereiidissimi patris ad hoc
assignatis detegerent et reuelareiit.

WENSLAW. Parochiani de Wenslaw dicunt quod omnia
infra eandem parochiani sunt bene.

GRENTON. Parochiani de Grenton' dicunt quod infra
parochiam de Grenton' omnia sunt bene.

DOWNOM. Parochiani de Downom' dicunt quod omnia
sunt bene infra dictam parochiam.

WITTON'. Parochiani de Wytton' dicunt quod capella de
Wytton' est ruinosa.

Item dicunt quod in capella de Witton'f est quedam
cantaria fundata, in qua dominus Willelmus Hebson'
capellanus est institutus, et tenetur per tres dies solernpnes
qualibet septimana celebrare, et moratur cum magistro de
Monte J ac dimittit earn in officiatam,§ dimisitque fructus
eiusdem ad fir mam.

AYSKERTH'. Parochiani de Ayskerth' dicunt quod vna
columpna in naui ecclesie patitur ruinam.

Item dicunt quod firmarius ecclesie depascit boues, oues
et equos in cimiterio, illud turpiter maculando.

COUERHAM. Parochiani de Couerham dicunt quod plures
parochiani ibidem singulis diebus dominicis et festiuis, cum
ad ecclesiam parochialem de Couerham accederint, occupant
porticum eiusdem ecclesie cum taiita multitudine gladiorum,
arcuuui, sigittarum,|| baculorum cum puncturis longissimis,
et aliorum instrumentorum bellicorum quod vix aliquis
potest intrare ecclesiam predictam.

* Sic.

t The chapel of West Witton wus distinct from the parish church, and was
a separate benefice in the gift of the Scropes of Masham. Although nominally
a free chapel, its rectors were instituted in the ordinary way by the archdeacon
of Richmond.

I Mount St. John, near Thirsk, appears to be meant.
Sic.

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Item chorus dicte ecclesie tern pore diuini seruicij occupatur
cum tanta multitudine laicorum quod vix clericus potest
habere accessum ad altare. Item parochiani contra formam
iuris, et sine litteris officialium vel decanorum, recipiunt in
facie ecclesie iuramenta publica, testes producendo, et alia
inordinata sua propria teineritate.

Item rixe et dissensiones quasi continue fiunt in ecclesia
per parochianos tempore diuini seruicij.

[f. 491.] 2. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS PRIORIS* SIUE

CAPITULI DUKELMENSIS TEMPORE VACACIONIS EIUSDEM.

[ Notice of visitation of the prior and convent of Durham on
17 Jan., 1437-8 (5 Dec., 1437).]

Johannes Marchall', in vtroque iure bacallarius,t etc.,
dilectis nobis inChristo venerabilibus et religiosis viris priori
et capitulo siue conuentui ecclesie cathedralis Dunelmensis,
sede episcopatus eiusdem vacante,J salutem in omnium
Saluatoris.§ Vt iuxta sacras regulas et canonicas sancciones
circa nostri execucionem officij debitam diligenciam impen-
damus, deuocioni vestre innotescimus per presentes quod die
Veneris proximo post festum sancti Hillarij, videlicet decimo
septimo die mensis Januarij proxime futuro, cum continua-
cione et prorogacione dierum sequencium ssi opus fuerit, in
capitulo vestro apud Dunelmum intendimus ad recreacionem
animarum vestrarum, fauente Domino, visitacionis officium
ibidem exercere. Igitur vobis tenore presencium iniungimus
et mandamus quatinus, conuocatis omnibus et singulis ad
hoc personaliter conuocandis, dictis die et loco coram nobis
ibidem vestram exhibere curetis presenciam personalem,
visitacionem nostram necnon salubria monita, correcciones
et iniuncta debita et deuota reuerencia recepturi, et ea que
visitacionis officium huiusmodi attinent facturi vlterius et
impleturi. De die vero recepcionis presencium et nominibus
confratrum vestrorum ac omni eo quod facere decreueritis in
premissis nos citra dictum diem Veneris distincte et aperte
certificetis per litteras vestras patentes harum seriem

* Sic.

t For John Marchall or Marshall, Kempe's commissary in this visitation,
see note in appendix.

J Cardinal Langley, the last bishop, had died on 20 Nov., 1437. His place
was filled by Che translation of Robert Nevill from Salisbury in the following
summer.

§ Sic.

222 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

continentes, aliquo sigillo autentico pendente signatas.
Data apud Shirburn' iuxta Dune! mum quinto die inensis
Decembris, anno Domini millesimo cccc"10 tricesimo septimo.

Certificatorium dicte premunicionis.

[Certificate by prior Wessington and the convent of Durham
of receipt and execution of the above mandate (14 Jan.

1437-8).]

Keuereiido et discrete viro magistro Johanni MarchalP,
in vtroque iure bacallario, canonico ecclesie cathedralis
Wellensis,* etc., Johannes, permissione diuina prior, et
capitulum ecclesie cathedralis Dunelmensis, omnimodas
reuerencias et honores in hao parte. debitos. Litteras vestras
reuerendas penultimo die mensis Decembris recepimus
tenorem continentes subsequentem : Johannes MarchalP, etc.
Harurn igitur auctoritate litterarum priores, magistros,
custodes cellarum nostrarum ac monachos omnes et singulos
in eisdem commorantes citauimus peremptorie quod com-
pareant coram vobis die Veneris proximo post festum sancti
Hillarij, videlicet decimo septimo die mensis Januarij,
anno Domini millesimo cccc"10 xxxvij0, cum continuacione et
prorogacione dierum tune sequencium, in capitulo Dunelm'
visitacionem vestram actualiter recepturi, prout ijdem
priores, magistri, custodes et monachi earundem cellarum
comparere debent seu hactenus comparere et facere con-
sueuerunt. Prouiso silicetf quod eedem celle presencia
monachorum non remaneant totaliter destitute, et quod in
singulis cellis tot remaneant monachi pro diuinis officiis
peragendis ac aliis necessitatibus et oneribus supportandis
quot fuerint necessarij et sufficere poterint. Et litteris
vestris reuerendis paruimus et parebinms vt tenernur, juribus,
priuilegiis, libertatibus et immunitatibus [f. 491 d] ecclesie
cathedralis Dunelmensis in omnibus semper saluis. Ad hoc
vero nomina citatorum in cedula annexa presentibus con-
tinentur. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum
presentibus est appensum. Data Dunelmi quartodecimo die
mensis Januarij, anno Domini millesimo cccc"10 tricesimo
septimo.

* Marchall did not become a canon of York until 1438. See note in
appendix.
t Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 223

Johannes Wessyngton', prior,* Stephanus Hauden',
supprior,t Willelmus Poklyngton', infirmatus,J Johannes
Durham, senior ,§ Eobertus Emyldon', innrmatus,|| Willel-
mus Barry, prior de FunkhalP,^[ Johannes Gisburn', magister
Willelmus Ebchestre, sacrista,** Hugo Warworth', infirma-
tus,ff Willelmus Durham4+ Eogerus Langchestre, magister

* For John "Wessyngton, prior 1416 — 46, see note in Rites of Durham,
p. 213, and index to the same work for various references to his work. He
doubtless was a native of Washington in Chester ward, co. Durham. He was a
member of the convent and ordained priest in 1394-5, when he celebrated his
first mass (Durh. Account Itolls, p. 599). His literary labours in compiling a
chartulary are mentioned in 1407-8 and 1408-9 (ibid., pp. 138, 423, 456) : for
his treatise De Origine Monachatus see Ifites of Durham, p. 124 n. He was
sacrist from 1408 to his election as prior in 1416 : his account rolls for this
period, printed in Durh. Account Holts, pp. 402 — 6, contain much interesting
detail with regard to the stonework and furniture of the church. As prior, he
was responsible for the building of the sacristy (now destroyed) on the north
side of the quire of the cathedral, and of the corresponding library (now the
song-school) on the south. He was buried in the north transept, before the
entrance into the north aisle of the quire (Rites of Durham, p. 22). See also
Scriptores Tres., p. cclxviii. sqq.

f Stephen Howden occurs in the list of monks in 1409 and was sub-prior as
early as 1420 (Durh. Account Rolls, pp. 457, 259).

J Feretrar c. 1402-3—1409, prior of Finchale in 1420 (ibid., pp. 457, 458,
269).

§ The two monks of this name, who held various offices in the monastery,
are hard to distinguish in the account rolls. John Durham, senior, however,
feretrar in 1420 (ibid., p. 269) is probably the same as the John Durham, senior,
of 1437-8, who was probably in the infirmary at this time.
|| Feretrar 1439-40—1441-2 (ibid., pp. 470—2).

If Sic. There are numerous entries relating to Barry in Durh. Account
Rolls. In 1400-1 he was one of the monks sent to the cell at Lytham, Lanes,
(p. 137). He was hostiler of the monastery 1406-7—1422-3 (see extracts from
his rolls, pp. 138—141) and terrer during much of the same period (pp. 299 —
303). His roll as receiver of income from the Eainton coal-mine extends from
1409 — 19 (p. 708). He was one of the two monks sent to London in 1416 to
obtain confirmation of prior Wessyngton's election (p. 614).

** William Ebchestre celebrated his first mass in 1408-9 (ibid., p. 402). In
1416-7 he appears to have been sent to study at Oxford (p. 287), where in 1420-1
he was warden of Durham college (p. 228), and incepted as bachelor in theology
about the same time (pp. 463, 303). He became sacrist probably about 1426, but
his early rolls seem to be lost (pp. 408—11). In 1440-1 he was one of the
representatives of the convent at the general Benedictine chapter at Oxford
(p. 627). He was elected prior in 1446 in succession to Wes-syngton (p. 85) and
resigned in 1456. See note in Rites of Durham, p. 219, where it appears that
the inscription on his tomb-slab before the altar of our Lady of Bolton in the
south transept stated that he died in 1456. But it is clear that he retired upon
a pension, which he was still receiving in 1458-9 (Durh. Account Rolls, p. 638).
He died probably before 1462 (ibid.).

ft Hugh Warkword, monk in 1409 (ibid., p. 457).

tt William Durham celebrated his first mass in 1397-8 (ibid., p. 215). In
1402-3 he was paid 5s. for writing a grayle (p. 455). William Duresme in the
list of 1409 (p. 457).

224 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

infirmarie,* Johannes Swyneshed', infirmatus.,t Thomas
Moorby,:J: Thomas Witton',§ Henricus Fereby, Johannes
Gonerton, altus decanus ordinis,|| Johannes Durham,
magister celle de Jarow,H Robertus Moorby,*"* Johannes
Wiclyff,ff Kicardus Barton', tercius prior et feretrarius,it
Thomas Nesbit, hostillarius,§§ Johannes Dorward', alter
decanus ordinis, Georgius Sither', magister Gallalie,||||
Johannes Barlay, camerarius,f^[ Willelmus Lyham,***
magister celle de Warmouth/ inonachorum, Johannes
Oil, senescallus domini prioris,fft Thomas Laueson',
bursarius,J|J Thomas Hexham, senior, §§§ Johannes

* Langchestre's rolls as infirmarer extend over the period 1434-5 — 1437-8
(ibid., p. 274). He appears as early as 1408 (p. 458), and was one of the two
feretrars in 1420-1 (p. 463).

f Swyneshed was a monk in 1400-1 (ibid., p. 137).

^ Thomas Morby appears in the list of monks in 1409 (ibid., p. 457).
Cellarer 1419 — 22 (pp. 56 — 8). He was surveyor of the work of the infirmary
in 1420 (p. 269).

§ Witton is also in the list of 1409. He was paid 6*. 8d. a few years later
by the almoner profactura nove tabule (ibid., p. 227).

|| John Gonwarton is in the list of 1409. He was infirmarer c. 1447-8—
1454-5 (ibid., pp. 275 — 7, where he appears as Gimwerton and Gonnertori).
Gunuerton is in Chollerton parish, Northumberland. The decanus in a
monastery was originally a monk who had the supervision of a band of monks,
ten in number. At Durham the two decani were apparently survivals of an
obsolete practice : they probably corresponded to the jwar^wsand quintus priores
found, e.g., at theCluniac house of Lewes, with disciplinary functions like those
of the deans of a college. Altus decanus seems to mean " high," i.e., principal
" dean."

If See note on p. 223 above, upon the elder John Durham. Both Durhams
filled several offices in the convent. John Durham, junior, was cellarer in 1417
(ibid., p. 55), and he may be the monk of that name who was feretrar from
1418 to 1433-4 (pp. 462—8).
** Commoner before 1430-1 (ibid., p. 288).

ft Celebrated his first mass c. 1410 (ibid., p. 403). Garnerer in 1416-7
(p. 614).

Jt Warden of Durham college, Oxford, in 1431-2 (ibid., p. 231). His first
roll as feretrar is in 1434-5, his last in 1438-9 (pp. 468—470).

§§ Commoner in 1420 (ibid., p. 269). He apparently became hostiler in this
year: one roll of Thomas Nessvyll («e) exists for 1439-40 (p. 143). He was
chamberlain c. 1440-1— c. 1444-5 (pp. 184—6).

HI) George Sythar celebrated his first mass in 1414-5 (ibid., p. 225). He
appears to have been commoner in 1428-9 (p. 288).

1"^T Cellarer in 1424 (ibid., p. 59). Receiver from the coal-mines of the
monastery, c. 1441—4 (pp. 712, 713). Prior of Lytham 1446.
*** Probably from Lytham, Lanes.

fft Oil was probably commoner in 1427-8 (p. 288). He was also joint bursar
with Thomas Lawson, c. 1432-— 1435 (pp. 62, 75).

JJJ Thomas Laweson, cellarer 1422 and c. 1429-30 (ibid., pp. 59, 60). Bursar
c. 1433-4—1437-8 (pp. 622—5).

§§§ Feretrar in 1427-8 (ibid., p. 466). Thomas Hexham, junior, presumably
the prior of Lytham in 1459, is not mentioned.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 225

Gaytesheued',* Johannes Harom', Thomas Ward', celle-
rarius,t Robertas Ergehow per procuratorem, Thomas Ford,
refectariusjj Willelmus DaJton'., officiarius cancellarie et
elemosinarie,§ Willelmus Eden',|| Willelmus Clyffton',
infirmatus, Johannes Britley,^[ gran atar ins, Eobertus
Westmerlaiid,** Johannes Warner, precentor,ft Thomas
Lew}rn^,j:| Ricardus Blakburn', capellanus domini nostri
prioris,§§ Johannes Wheldrik', Thomas Bradbury, in
cella, Robertus Skremerston', Willelmus Kirkby, Johannes
Medilhani,|||| Nicholaus Bolton', Johannes Ripon',H Ricar-
dus Parke,*** Willelmus Kellow,ftt Willelmus Wilbres-
ton', Henricus Raket,J^J Johannes Bradbury, Willelmus
Figes, Ricardus Wrake,§§§ Willelmus Rodburn', || || ||
Johannes RhavalF, Willelmus Cuthbert,HHJ Ricardus

* Feretrar 1433-4 (ibid., p. 468). As bursar, 1439—45 (pp. 627—9), he was
engaged in a considerable amount of legal business on behalf of the house,
going on such business to York in 1443-4 (p. 185) and to London in 1444-5
(p. 144). In 1446 he was sent to Howdeu to obtain the confirmation of prior
Ebchester's election (p. 631). Hostiler in 1447-8 and 1450—4 (pp. 146—50).

f Cellarer in 1427 (ibid., p. 59) and c. 1433—1441 (pp.61— 78). Infirmarer
c. 1441— f. 1443 (pp. 274-5).
t Sic.

§ Almoner 1437—45 (ibid., pp. 233—5). Feretrar 1445—53 (pp. 472—
5).

|| Cellarer 1443—5 (ibid., pp. 82, 83). Bursar 1444-7 (pp. 629—31).
1[ I.e., Birtley. Student at Oxford, 1425-6 (ibid., p. 465).
** He appears as conscius computantis in the cellarer's accounts 1438—41
(ibid., pp. 62—78), and with John Gaytesheued in the rolls of receipts from
coal-mines (pp. 712, 713). Almoner 1445-6 (p. 235).

ft A John Warner appears as feretrar 1457—60-1 (ibid., pp. 476—8) and
infirmarer 1460-1 — c. 1465 (pp. 278-9) ; but it is doubtful whether this is the
same person.

tt Student at Oxford c. 1425-6 (ibid., p. 465). Co-feretrar with Richard
Barton 1434 — 9 (pp. 468—70) : conscius in cellarer's accounts 1439—41 (p. 78).
Cellarer in 1449 (p. 79).

§§ Chamberlain 1442-5 (ib-id., p. 185). Co-feretrar 1460-1 (p. 478). Sacrist
1465—71 (p. 412).

|| || Bursar 1447—51 (ibid., p. 642) and 1456-7 (pp. 634-5). Hostiler
1457-8-9 (pp. 151, 477). Prior of Lytham 1458.
1[ IT Conscius feretrarij 1444—53 (ibid., pp. 472—5).
*** Prior's chaplain in 1441-2 (ibid., p. 628).
ftt Conscius feretrarij 1453—5 (ibid., p. 475).

JJJ Conscius cellerarij 1441-2 (ibid., p. 79). Chamberlain 1452—7 (pp. 190—
2).

§§§ Commoner in 1452-3, before which period he was for seven years outside
the monastery (ibid., p. 190), and in 1453-4 (p. 289). Chamberlain in 1457-8
(p. 192) ; almoner 1466—72 (pp. 244—7) and infirmarer 1472—6 (p. 281). His
burial is noted in 1483-4 (p. 414).

IHIII Almoner 1472—5 (ibid., p. 247).

Hf IF Bursar 1453-4 (ibid., pp. 633, 642). Hostiler 1459—65 (pp. 152—4:
cf. 305, where he appears as terror, the offices being combined).

226 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Shirburn',* Willelmus Burden, Johannes Eden,t Thomas
Calee.J

[f . 492.] Commissio specialis ad visitandum priorem et
conuentum, vt patet.

[Commission of visitation of Durham cathedral priory to John
Marchall (10 Dec., 1437).]

Johannes, perinissione diuina Ebor' archiepiscopus, Anglie
primas§ et apostolice sedis legatus, dilecto in Christo filio
magistro Johanni Marchall', canonico ecclesie cathedralis
Wellensis, registrario nostro, salutem, graciam et bene-
diccionem. De vestris fidelitate et circumspect a indu stria
plenius confidentes, ad visitandum ecclesiam cathedralem
Dunelmensem, sede eiusdem vacante, prioremque, capitulum
et personas, res et bona quecumque ecclesiastica ecclesie
predicte, que et quas, variis et arduis causis serenissimi
principis et domini nostri regis negociis occupati et prepiditi,||
visitare ad presens personaliter non valeinus, nenon^l ad
corrigendum, puniendum et reformandum excessus, crimina
et defectus quecumque in huiusmodi visitacione comperta, et
in hiis que cause cognicionem requirunt cognoscenduni,
procedendum, statuendum, definiendum et exequendurn,
ceteraque omnia et singula facienda et expedienda que in
premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint vel oportuna, vobis
vices nostras committimus cum euiuslibetcohercionis caiionice
potestate. Nos autem cen suras ecclesiasticas et quascumque
sentencias quas rite tuleritis in rebelles ratas habebimus et
eas faciemus, annuente Domino, inuiolabiter obseruari. Et
nos de omni eo quod feceritis et inueneritis in premissis
oportuno tempore distincte et aperte certificetis per litteras
vestras patentes harum seriem continentes. Data in manerio
nostro iuxta Westmonasterium sub sigillo nostro ad causas
decimo die mensis Deceuibris anno Domini m1ccccmoxxxvi3°.

* Student at Oxford in 1441-2 (ibid., p. 184) Infirmarer 1465—72
{pp. 279, 280).

f Conscius cellerarij 1443— 5 (ibid., pp. 82, 83). Prior's chaplain in 1446
(p. 631). Bursar 1454-5 (p. 634) and 1457—9 (pp. 636-8, 642). Sacrist
1472-3 (pp. 412, 413).

J Thomas Caly or Gale, conscius feretrarij, 1455 — 7 ; co-feretrar 1457-8
(ibid., pp. 475—7).

§ This document was apparently begun on f . 491 d, written as far as the
word primas, and then left unfinished. The date does not tally with that of
Marchall's notice on p. 221 above, which is given as 5 Dec. in the register, but
probably should be 25 Dec.
: i| Sic,

IT Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 227

Acta visitacionis predict e.
[Process of the above visitation (17 Jan. 1437-8).]

Visitacio reuerendissimi in Christo patris et domini,
domini Johannis, Dei gracia Ebor' archiepiscopi, Anglie
primatis et apostolice sedis legati, facta et exercita vice et
auctoritate eiusdem in domo capitulari prioratus ecclesie
cathedralis Dunelmensis, sede episcopali eiusdem per mortem
bone memorie domini Thome Lang-ley, nuper Dunelmensis
episcopi, vacante, die Veneris, videlicet decimo septimo die
mensis Januarij, anno Domini millesimo cccc1110 tricesimo
septimo, indiccione prirna, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo
patris et domini nostri domini Eugenij, diuina prouidencia
pape quarti, anno septimo,* per venerabilem et discretum
virum magistrum Johannem Marchall', canonicum ecclesie
cathedralis Wellensis, prefati reuerendissimi patris regis-
trarium ac magistrum siue custodem hospitalis de Shirburn'
iuxta Dunelmum, predicti reuerendissimi patris vicarium
generalem et custodem jurisdiccionis episcopatus predicti,
commissarium specialiter deputatum, prout in quadam com-
mission e prefati reuerendissimi patris cum quodam sigillo
oblongo eiusdem pendente in cera veridif signata et superius
in present! registro registrata plenius continetur.J Quibus
die et loco comparueruiit coram prefato commissario, custode
vt prefertur jurisdiccionis episcopalis predicte, religiosi viri
fratres Johannes Wessyngton.', dicte ecclesie cathedralis
Dunelmensis prior, Stephanus Hauden, eiusdem ecclesie
supprior, et ceteri monachi eiusdem monasterij ; quibus vt
premittitur in domo capitulari predicta congregatis prei'atus
frater Johannes Dalton', in sacra theologia bacallarius,§
verbum Dei publice proposuit et predicauit, cuius thema
fuit, Discendit Dominus vt videret ciuitatem.\\ Quo sermone
finito, omnes seculares et laici tune ibidem presentes,
prepterf notarium et duos testes, de dicta domo capitulari
ad mandatum commissarij predicti recesserunt. Qui quidem

* The pontifical years of Eugenius IV. are reckoned from 11 March,
1430-1.

f Sic.

J I.e., the preceding document.

§ No John Dalton has been mentioned in the list of monks. William
Dalton, almoner and chancellor of the prior and convent, is probably meant.

|| Gen. xi., 5. There is a similarity between this text and the unidentified
passage which archbishop Wick wane chose for his sermon on Palace green at
Durham during his unsuccessful attempt at a visitation in 1280-1. See Reg.
WicTfwane (Surt. Soc.), p. ix. n.

If Sic.

Q 2

228 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

commissarius dictam commission em suam coram dicto priore
et conuentu publice legi fecit, et similiter certificatorium
precede ns sigillo dictorum prioris et conuentus in cera rubia
pendente signatum ; quod quidem certificatorium superius in
hoc registro registratur.* Quibus sic perlectis et peractis,
prefatus frater Johannes, prior, post diuersast tractatus et
alligacionesj super obediencia prestanda prefato reueren-
dissimo patri, ex eo quod dixit se obedienciam prestitisse
predicto domino Thome Lang-ley, nuper episcopo predicto,
ac suis successoribus quibuscumque, volens et credens
huiusmodi obedienciam extendi debere ad prefatum reueren-
dissimum patrem Johannem, Ebor' archiepiscopum, et sic se
ab alia obediencia prestanda excusari debere, tanquam ipsius
sede predicta vacante successorem, tandem idem prior eidem
reuerendissimo patri obedienciam prestitit debitam et con-
suetam, depost quod predictus commissarius atque custos
certos articulos regularem disciplinam concernentes eisdem
priori et conuentui publice et seriose declarauit, et subse-
quenter eosdem priorein et monachos quoscumque preter
tres infirmos [f. 492 d] super huiusmodi articulis et aliis in
visitacione huiusmodi consuetis singillatim examinauit, et
super vlteriori diliberacione§ et execucione actus illius
visitacionem suam huiusmodi vsque in diem crastinum tune
sequentem continuauit. Quo die crastino adueniente, vide-
licet die Sabbati, hora capitulari predictus magister Johannes
custos, presentibus ibidem fratre Johanne priore predicto et
ceteris coiifratribus suis, quam paucis exceptis, examina-
cionem super articulis in predicta visitacione propositis
compleuit, et ad requisicionem prefati prioris et confratrum
suorum ibidem existencium visitacionem huiusmodi dissoluit,
ipsos priorem et conueiitum in personas singulares eorundem
omnipotenti Deo beateque Marie virgini, beato Cuthberto
et omnibus sanctis cornmittendo, hiis testibus, magistris
Johanne Carleton', legum doctore, Johanne Sowby, magistro
siue custode hospitalis de Gretham, Willelmo Doncastre,
decano de Aukland', Johanne Benour, decretorum doctore,
rectore de Whitbarn',|| Willelmo Willowston', officiali
archidiaconi Dunelm', Johanne Birell', notario publico, et
multis aliis.

* I.e., the last document but one.

f Sic.

t Sic.

§ Sic.

|| I.e., Whitburn

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[f. 495.] 3. PKEMUNICIO VISITACIONIS DE ALUEETONSHIRE.

[Notice of visitation of the bishop of Durham's jurisdiction in
Allertonshire on 22 Feb. 1437-8 (16 Feb. 1437-8).]

Johannes Marchall', in vtroque iure bacallarius, etc.,
dilecto nobis in Christo perpetuo vicario ecclesie parochialis
de Leek', iurisdiccionis episcopalis Dimelm' in Aluertonshire,
salutem in omnium Saluatore. Animarum saluti subditorum
iurisdiccionis predicte quantum in nobis est prouidere
cupientes, ad extirpacionein viciorum, morum reformacionem
et virtutum incrementa, intendimus annuente Domino
iurisdiccionem predictam, clerum et populum eiusdem die
Sabbati proxime ante festum sancfci Mathei* apostoli
proximef f uturo visitare. Vobis igitur in virtute obediencie
nrmiter iniungendo mandamus quatinus [etc., as in Bowet's
notice for the archdeaconry of York, with a few variations.
The visitation is to take place in Leake church. The epithet
"ordinariam" is omitted after "visitacioiiem." Dated at
Sherburn hospital, 16 Feb., 1437-8].

[Certificate and presentations returned at the above
visitation.^

Memorandum quod xxj° die mensis Februarij, anno
Domini millesimo ccccmoxxxvij0,J idem vicarius de Leek
certificauit sue viue vocis oraculo execucionem mandati
predicti debite se fecisse, presentes§ vnam cedulam in qua
nomina curatorum jurisdiccionis predicte ac capellanorum
cantariarum et aliorum beneficiatorum eiusdem.

Dominus Willelmus Corbrig', vicarius de Leek, dominus
Johannes Otteryngton, rector de Cawsby, dominus Thomas
Medilton', vicarius de Osmonderly, dominus Ricardus Skel-
ton', vicarius de Thorneton' in Fabis [prestitit obedienciam] ,
dominus Georgius Olyuer, vicarius de Thorneton-' in mora,
dominus Johannes Newton', rector de Birtby, dominus
Eicardus Smynson', vicarius de Northoteryngton', dominus
Thomas Gammy 11'.

Parochiani de Cawsby dicunt omnia bene.

Parochiani de North'oteryngton' dicunt quod ecclesia sua
est defectiua in cancella|| in tectura et muris.

* Sic. Mathie is meant.

f Sic.

% 21 Feb. fell on a Friday, the actual visitation being fixed for Sat., 22 Feb.

§ Sic (p'ntes in original). Presentans is probably meant.

II Sic.

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lidem dicunt quod cimiterium suum est defectiuum in
clausura.

Ijdem dicunt quod porticus ecclesie sue predicte est
defectiua et indiget reparacione. Et monitus est rector*
eiusdem sufficienter quod reparieturf cancellus predictus
citra festum sancti Martini proxiinefuturum. Et parochiani
moniti suiit reparare cimiterium predictum et porticum citra
festum sancti Petri aduincula proximum sub pena xls.

Parochiani de Birtby dicunt quod cimiterium suum est
defectiuum in clausura et indegetj reparacione. Ideo
iniunctum est eis vt faciant illud sufficienter reparatum citra
festum Pasche proxime sequens sub pena xls. elemosine
prefati reuerendissimi patris et fabrice ecclesie eiusdem
applicandorum.

Item parochiani de Osmonderley dicunt quod cimiterium
suum est defectiuum in clausura. Ideo iniunctum est sub
pena cs. quod sufficienter reparietur§ citra festum Pasche
proxime futurum.

Item ijdem parochiani dicunt quod carent lucerna coram
corpore Christi portanda dum eisdem ministratur. Ideo
iniunctum est vt habeant vnam lucernam.

[f. 493.] 4. PKEMUNICIO VISITACIONIS ARCHIDIACONATUS
DUNELM'.

[Notice by John Marchall, commissary, of visitation of the
archdeaconry of Durham (5 Dec., 1438).]

Johannes Marchall', etc., dilecto nobis in Christo archi-
diacono Dunelni' seu eius official! vel locum tenenti, salutem
in omnium Saluatore. Cura iam nuper a prefato reueren-
dissimo patre nobis licet in merito commissa nos excitat,
mouet et inducit vt iuxta concessi nobis regimiiiis officium
animarum subditoruin nostrorum commodo et saluti, quantum
nobis ex alto concessum fuerit, solicitudinis studio inten-
dimus eeapropter|| clerum et populum archidiaconatus
Dunelm' ad corroboracionem virtutum, morum reformacionem
et extirpacionem viciorum, diuinafauenteclemencia, auctori-
tate nobis commissa de proximo visitare. Vobis igitur in
virtute obediencie nrmiter [etc., as in Bowet's notice for the
archdeaconry of York, p. 155 above, with several small

* The rector of this appropriated church was the master of St. James'
hospital at Northallerton.

t Sic. | Sic. § Sic. |i Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 231

Variations. The lay-folk are to be summoned " cum delibe-
racione sequestratoris nostri in archidiaconatu predicto."
" Ordinariam " is omitted after " visitacionem." Dated at
Sherburn by Durham, 5 Dec., 1438].

Progressus eiusdem visitacionis vt patet in cedula
sequenti.

[f . 49-3 d.] [Schedule with details of visitation.]

[1st day (20 Jan. 1438-9) : St. Nicholas, Durham.]
Johannes Marchall', in vtroque iure bacallarius, custos
predictus, die Lune, xxmo die mensis Januarij, anno Domini
supradicto, in ecclesia parochiali sancti Nicholai ciuitatis
Dunelm',* fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem, necnon
ecclesias sancti Egidij et sancte Marie borialis et australis,
ecclesiam sancti Oswaldi cum capellis ab eadem dependen-
tibus, et vicariam de Pittyngton'.f

[2d day (21 Jan.) : Chester-le-Street.] Die Mertis,J xxj°
die eiusdem mensis, idem Johannes in ecclesia collegiata
Cestr'§ visitabit eandem cum capellis eidem annexis, aceciam
ecclesiam de Kyinles worth ',|| ecclesias de Kiton', Quicham^ff
et Gayteshed', et hospitale sancti Edmundi de Gayteshed'.

[3d day (22 Jan.) : Jarrow.] Die Marcurij,** xxij° die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia de Jarowft visitabit
eandem, necnon ecclesias de Bolden% Whittebarn'JJ et
Wessyngton'.§§

[4th day (23 Jan.) : Bishop Wearmouth.] Die Jouis,
xxiij0 die mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia parochiali
de Warmouth' Episcopi|| || visitabit eandem ac eciam ecclesiam

* Five churches in the city of Durham : Pittington in Easington ward.
t App. to Durham cath. priory.
J Sic.

§ All five churches in Chester ward: part of Chester-le- Street parish in
Easington ward.

|| Kimblesworth church no longer exists : since 1593 the parish has been
united to Witton Gilbert.
«[ Whickham.
** Sic.

ft All four churches in Chester ward. Jarrow was app. to the priory, a cell
of Durham : no vicarage ordained.
It Whitburn.
§§ Washington.

Four places in Easiugton ward : Monkwearmouth and Hilton in Chester

ward.

232 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

de Warmouthy monachomm* cum capellis de Hilton', Sehamt
et Dalton',,^ et ecclesiam de HoghtonJ.§

[5th day (24 Jan.) : Easington.~] Die Veneris, xxiiij0 die
mensis predict!, idem in ecclesia de Esyiigton'|| visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesias de Castelden'l et Hesilden'.**

[6th day (25 Jan.) : Hartlepool.~\ Die Sabbati, xxv° die
eiusdem mensis, idem cnstos in capella de Hartilpoleft
visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de Hart et ecclesiam de Stran-
ton' cum suis capellis .JJ

[7th day (26 Jan.) : Greatham.] Die dominica, xxvj° die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia de Gretham§§
visitabit eandem necnon vicariam in eadem, ac ecclesias de
Elwik, ByUyngham|||| et Norton.ff

[Sth day (27 Jan.) : Sedgefield.] Die Lune, xxvij0 die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia de Segefeld'*'
visitabit eandem necnon ecclesias de Kellow,ttt vicariam
in eadem, ac ecclesias de Tremden'4JJ Grirden'§§§ et
Bisshopton' Medilton'.||1|||

[9th day (28 Jan.) : Egglescliffe.] Die Martis, xxviij0 die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia de EgesclyffetlfU

* Appropriated to the prior and convent of Durham.

f Usually reckoned as a separate parish church, appropriated to Coverham
abbey.

t Dalton-le-Dale, app. to the prior and convent of Durham.
§ Houghton-le- Spring.
j| All three churches in Easington ward.

it Castle Eden, app. to the dean and canons of Auckland : no vicarage
ordained.

** Monk Hesledon, app. to the prior and convent of Durham,
ft All in Stockton ward. Hart, with its chapel of Hartlepool, was app. to
Guisborough priory.

tt App. to Guisborough priory. Seaton Carew was a chapelry of Stranton.
§§ All four churches in Stockton ward. Greatham was app. to the master
and brethren of Greatham hospital.

Illl App. to the prior and convent of Durham.
fl App. to the college of Norton.

*** Three churches in Stockton ward : Kelloe and Trimdon in Easington
ward.

ttt App. to the bishop of Durham.
lit Trimdon.

§§§ Sic. App. to Sherburn hospital.
IIIH1 Bishop Middleham, app. to Sherburn hospital.

f f f All six churches in Stockton ward : a large portion of Sockburn parish
was in Allertonshire wapentake, Yorks. Egglescliffe was app. to Finchale
priory.

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visitabit eandem necnon ecclesias de Lang-new ton', Staynton'
in strata,* Redemer shall et Sokburu',f Elton'. J

[10//i day (29 Jan.) : Darlington.] Die Marcurij, xxix° die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia de Derlyngton'§
visitabit eandem cum suis capellis ac ecclesias de Halugh-
ton',|| Hurworth', Medilton' saucti Georgi, Dedynsale^f et

\\.\th day (30 Jan.) : Gainford.] Die Jouis, xxxmo die

eiusdem mensis, idem in ecclesia de Gaynford'ff visitabit

eandem cum suis capellis ac ecclesias de Medilton' in Tese-
dale et Connclyff.H

[12th day (31 Jan.) : Staindrop.] Die Veneris, vltimo die
mensis predicti, idem custos in ecclesia parochiali§§ siue
collegiata de Standropp'|||| visitabit eandem necnon ecclesias
de Wynston', Cokfeld' et Heghyngton'.Hf

[13th day (1 Feb.) : St. Andrew's, Auckland.] Die Sabbati,
primo die mensis Februarij, idem custos in ecclesia collegiata
de Aukland'**"* visitabit eandem cum suis capellis necnon
ecclesias de Wolsyngliam, Stanehopp', Meryngton'ftf et

[15th day (3 Feb.) : Lanchester.] Die Lune, iij° eiusdem
mensis Februarij, idem custos in ecclesia collegiata de
Langchestr'§§§ visitabit eandem ac eciam ecclesias de Heb-
IHII Edmundeberesflt et Braunspath'.^^

* Great Stainton.
f App. to Sherburn hospital.
J Apparently added as an after-thought.

§ Three churches in Darlington ward: three (Hurworth, Middleton
St. George and Dinsdale in Stockton ward). Part of Haughton parish is in
Stockton ward.

|| Haughton-le-Skerne.
^[ Dinsdale.

** Aycliffe, app. to the prior and convent of Durham.

ft All three churches in Darlington ward. Gainford was app. to St. Mary's
abbey, York : Barnard Castle was one of its chapels.
JJ Coniscliffe, app. to the bishop of Durham.
§§ De erased.

(HI All four churches in Darlington ward.
f ^ App. to the prior and convent of Durham.
*** All five churches in Darlington ward.
ttt App. to the prior and convent of Durham.
itJ App. to the prior and convent of Durham.

§§§ Three churches in Chester ward : Brancepeth and part of the parish of
Lanchester in Darlington ward.
|| || i| Ebchester, app. to Sherburn hospital.

Edmondbyers. **** Brancepeth.

234 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

MEMORANDUM.

[Notice of certificate of the official of the archdeacon of
Durham (18 Jan., 1438-9).]

Memorandum quod xviij0 die men sis Januarij, anno
Domini supradicto, magister Willelmus Wynlauton', officialis
archidiaconi DimeLm',* certificauit se iuxta formam mandati
predicti et totalem eius effectum litteras predietas debite
demandasse execucioni.

[f . 494.] 5. CEETIFICATORIUM PREMUNICIONIS ARCHI-

DIACONATUS NoRTHUMBRIE.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of Northumberland
(14 Jan., 1438-9), with certificate of the official (5 Feb.,
1438-9).]

Et xiiij0 die mensis Januarij, anno Domini supradicto,
emanauit consimilis premunicio archidiacono Northumbref
seu eius officiali vfc prius emanauit archidiacono Dunelm' et
in eadem forma, cuius certificatorium fuit in hec verba :

Reuereiido viro magistro Johanni MarchalT, in vtroque
iure bacallario, vicario generali et custodi in spiritualibus
ciuitatis et diocesis Dune tin', episcopali sede ibidem vacante,
suus humilis et deuotus Johannes Sineton', in decretis
bacallarius, domini archidiaconi Northumbrie officialis,
obedienciam, reuereiiciam et honores. Vestras litteras
reuerendas, nuper michi directas xxij° die mensis Januarij
cum ea qua decuit reuerencia recepi, tenorem subsequentem
contineutes : Johannes Marchall', etc., vt in premuiiicione
archidiacouo Dunelm^ seu eius officiali directa vsque ibi.
Quarum auctoritate litter arum omnes et singulos recto res,
vicarios ac viros beneficiatos et capellanos ecclesiarum
parochialium et capellarum archidiaconatus Norhumbre4
aceciam alios quoscunque ecclesiarum approprietates preten-

* The archdeacon of Durham at this time was Robert Rolleston. See note
in appendix.

t Sic. The archdeacon of Northumberland at this time was Robert
Burton, precentor of Lincoln, of whom a full account will be found in
Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln (Line. Record Soc.),
i., 174, 175. He became archdeacon in 1427, and probably retained the office
till 1446.

t Sic.

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dentes, aliosque capellanos et clericos quoscumque, necnon
de singulis villis parochiarum quarumlibet archidiaconatus
prefati tres, quatuor, quinque vel sex viros fidedignos
secundum magnitudinem et minoritatem earundem citaui
ve* citari feci peremptorie ad comparendum coram vobis
tempestiue diebus et locis in cedula presentibusf descriptis,
visitacionem vestram ac omnia alia dictam visitacionem
tangencia subituros, recepturos vlteriusque facturos que
natura et qualitas vestre visitacionis exquirunt, ac
omnia in hiis litteris vestris contenta facturos, recepturos^
exhibituros, proposituros, ostensuros et dimissuros cum
effectu quod iusticia suadebit. Data a pud Nouumcastrum
super Tynam quinto die mensis Februarij, anno Domini
vt suprascriptum est.

Cedula premunicioiii precedent! annexa.
[Schedule detailing above visitation.]

[1st day (10 Feb. 1438-9) : St. Nicholas, Newcastle.'] Hec
sunt nomiiia curatorum qui sunt citati ad comparendum
coram magistro Johanne Marchall', custode spiritualitatis
Dunelm' diocesis, sede eiusdem vacante, xmo die m.ensis
Februarij, anno Domini suprascripto, in visitacione in
ecclesia beati Nicholai de Nouocastro super Tynam.J
Vicarius de Nouocastro et capellani parochiales capellaruin
sancti Johannis, Omnium Sanctorum et sancti An dree dicte
ville Nouicastri. Yicarius de Newburn',§ de Hedden,|| de
Bolum,1I de Whalton',** de Benton',ft de Tynmouth'4 j de
Ponteland',66

* Sic.

f Sic : annexa omitted.

$ The Newcastle churches, Heddon, Benton and Tynemouth, were in
Newcastle deanery : the other three churches in Morpeth deanery. Newcastle
is a county in itself. The other seven churches are in Castle ward ; but parts of
Heddon, Bolam and Newburn are in Tiudale ward, and part of Bolam in
Morpeth ward. St. Nicholas, Newcastle, and its chapels were app. to the prior
and convent of Carlisle.

§ App. to the prior and convent of Carlisle.
l| App. to Blanchland abbey.
<([ App. to Tynemouth priory.
** Whalton was a presentable rectory,
ft App. to Balliol coll., Oxford.
j j App. to Tynemouth priory.
§$ App. to Merton coll., Oxford.

236 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[2d day (11 Feb.) : Corbridge.~] Et hij ad comparendum
in ecclesia de Corbrig'* xijmo die eiusdem mensis Februarrj.
Vicarius de Corbrig',f de BiwelP Andree,J de Biwell Petri,§
de KirkherllMI de Whitefeld',1 de Whelpyngtou',** de
Knarisdale^ffde Dentoii', de Stanfordham^Ji de Eimesden',§§
de hospitale|||| de Elyshaw, de Crossynside, de Chollerton%^fl
de Oryngeham,***1 de Hawtwysell',ttt de Symondburn',JJJ
de Slamele,§§§ de Kirkbaugh'J|||| de Aldiston'Hl et de
War don *

[3d day, Morpeth.] Et hij ad comparendum in ecclesia
de Morpath'.fttf Kector de Morpath', de Mitteford'^JtM
de Stanyngton',§§§§ deBedlyngtoH,|||||||| de Melden^HIIH de
Botall', de Wodhorn',***** de Horsle,ttttt de Hert-

* Thirteen churches in Corbridge deanery. Kirk Whelpington, East
Denton and Starafordham in Morpeth deanery. Elsdou, Elshaw hospital, and
Corsenside in Newcastle deanery. Whitfield in Bamburgh deanery. All in
Tindale ward except Elsdon, in Coquetdale ward, and Alston, in Leath ward,
Cumberland.

f App. to the prior aud convent of Carlisle.
j App. to Elanchland abbey.
§ App. to the prior and convent of Durham.
|| Kirkharle, app. to Blanchland abbey.
If A presentable rectory.
** App. to Newminster abbey,
ft A presentable rectory.
JX App. to Hexhani priory.
§§ Elsdon, a presentable rectory.

Illl Sic. The hospital of Elshaw or Elleshaugh was near Otterburn in
Redesdale.

"Iffi App. to Hexham priory.
*** App. to St. Mary's abbey, York.
ttt Haltwhistle, app. to the bishop of Durham.
jjj A presentable rectory.
§§§ Slaley.

j| |1 1| A presentable rectory.
^fl^f Alston, app. to Hexhani priory.
**** App. to Hexham priory.

tttt Six churches in Morpeth deanery. Bedliugton and Mitford in
Newcastle deanery. Bothal in Bamburgh deanery. Six churches in Morpeth
ward. Meldon, Stannington and parts of Morpeth and Mitford in Castle ward.
Bedliugton in Chester ward, co. Durham. Part of Hartburn in Tindale
ward.

JJJJ App. to Newminster abbey.
§§§§ App. to Newminsfcer abbey.
|| IIIHI App. to the prior and convent of Durham.
IT If 1 if Meldon and Bothal were presentable rectories.
***** App. to Tynemouth priory,
ttttt Long Horsley, app. to Brinkburn priory.
App. to Tynemouth priory.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 237

[4>th [6th] day (15 Feb.) : Visitation of Brinkburn priory. ,]
Prior de Brenkburn' citatus ad comparendum in prioratu
suo de Breiikburn' xv° die mensis predict!, onus huiusmodi
visitacionis subiturus,, vt plenius patet in quadam premuni-
cione inferius regi strata eidem priori et conuentui facta.*

[&th [7th] day (16 Jan.) : AlnwickJ] Ethij ad comparendum
in capella parochial! de Alnewikf xvj° die mensis predict!.
Yicarius de Alnewik,j: de Felton'3§ de Werkworth',|| de
Etnyldons,ir de Lesbery,*"* de Eglyngeham,tt de Angre-
ham,tt de Alaham,§§ de Shilbotell',|| || de Aluerton',11 de
Whitfcygham,*** de Kothebery,ttt de Edlyngham.JJt de
HarbotelP.

[6th [Wth] day (19 Feb.) : Bamburgh.] Et hij ad compa-
rendum in ecclesia de Baumburgh'§§§ xix° die eiusdem
mensis Februarij. Magister de Baum burgh', |||||| de New-

ton',f1[f de Ilderton'/*** de Karham.tttt de Ford',tttt

* This mandate, which, mutatis mutandis, doubtless followed the form of
that addressed by Bowet to Healaugh Park priory (p. 166 above), was not
copied into the register.

f Twelve churches in Alnwick deanery. Felton in Morpeth deanery.
Lesbury in Bamburgh deanery. Eleven churches in Coquetdale ward. Wark-
worth in Morpeth ward : part of the parish in Coquetdale. Embleton and
Lesbury in Bamburgh ward : part of Lesbury in Coquetdale. Part of Felton
parish in Morpeth ward.

J App. to Alnwick abbey.
§ App. to Brinkburn priory.
II App. to the bishop of Carlisle.
f App. to Merton college, Oxford.
** App. to Alnwick abbey,
ft App. to Tynemouth priory.
t| Ingram, a presentable rectory.
§§ Alnham, app. to Alnwick abbey.
fill App. to Tynemouth priory.
rt Alwinton.

*** Sic. App. to the prior and convent of Carlisle,
ftt A presentable rector3r.
tit App. to the prior and convent of Durham.

§§§ All eleven churches in Bamburgh deanery. Two churches (Bamburgh,
Ellingham) in Bamburgh ward; Ilderton in Coquetdale ward; the rest in
Glendale ward, except Norham, the parish of which formed a portion of
co. Durham.

HIIII An obedientiary of St. Oswald's priory, Yorks, to whom the church was
app. as a cell.

f^f App. to Kirkham priory, Yorks.
**** A presentable rectory.
fttt App. to the prior and convent of Durham.

238 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

de Norham,* de Chelyngham,t de Fenton', de Woller'4 de
Elynghani§ et de Shatton'.||

[f. 474.] 5. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS CAPITULI EBOK'.

[Notice of visitation of the dean and chapter of York
for 19 Sept., 1440, dated "in hospicio nostro London' iuxta
Westmonasterium," 11 July, 1440. The form used is, with
a few variations, that used by Bowet, p. 194 above. Kempe
is styled, as in subsequent notices, " permissione diuimi
tituli sancte Balbine cardinalis,"! etc., and the mandatory
clause is addressed " decano et capitulo vel, abseiite
decano, capitulo predicto."]

Detecta in eadem.
[Detecta in the above-mentioned visitation.^

i. In primis detectum est quod, in defectu visitacionis
decani et capituli, domus prebendales et perpetuarurn
firmarum ecclesie Eboracensis multum sunt ruinose et in
locis plurimis sunt collapse.

ij. Item quod pecunie receptedeexecutoribuscanonicorum
mortuorum pro reparacionibus in domibus suis fiendis non
expenduntur circa huiusmodi reparaciones : ymmo conuer-
tuntur in priuatos vsus huiusmodi recipiencium.

iij. Item quod inansio prebende de Fenton'** male
reparatur, ac quod vacce, porci et equi sunt ibidem custoditi ;
et iuuencule de mane et de sero habent sub illo colore

* App. to the prior and convent of Durham.

f App. to Aluwick abbey.

$ App. to Alnwick abbey.

§ App. to the prior and convent of Durham.

|| Chatton, app. to Alnwick abbey.

^[ Kempe was created cardinal on 18 Dec., 1439, when Eugenius IV.
endeavoured to strengthen his position against the conciliar party by creating
seventeen new cardinals, including the Greeks Bessariou and Isidore of Kieff.
Lewis of Luxemburg, archbishop of Rouen and administrator of the see of Ely,
wras also included in this creation (Pastor, Gesch. der Pdpste, i., 311).

** The prebendary of Fenton at this time was John Langton (coll. 20 May,
1438), master of Pembroke hall, Cambridge. He res. in 1441 (Le Neve, iii.,
184).

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 239

recnrsum ad ilium locum, in quo quidem capellani ciuitatis*
habent cameras suas.

iiij. Item quod diuerse vicarie vacant in choro, et, eo non
obstante, pensiones et alia comoda vicariarum huiusmodi
plene leuantur et non exponuntur ad vsum debitum.

v. Item quod, licet due partes vicariorum ad minus
essent simul ad omnia diuina in choro presentes, et diebus
festiualibus omnes, hoc tamen obseruatur adeo quod diebus
t'erialibus contingit sepius quod non sunt ibidem vltra xij in
choro.

vj. Item quod vicarius, perdeus denarium ex eo quod
abest a matutinis, solet se ob hoc absentare a choro per totum
diem ; quam ob rem esset augenda pena pro singulis horis,
videlicet matutinis, missis et vespeiis, vt sic absens perdat
denarium, nisi eius absencia fuerit legitime approbata.

vij. Item quod capellani cantariarum, qui dicuntur
persone ecclesie, non veniunt ad chorum secundum quod
artantur vi composicionum suarum, et non curant sustinere
et reparare domus cantariarum suarum :f ymmo collabuntur
in eorum defectu in verisimilem perdicionem huiusmodi
cantariarum.

viij. Item domus prebendales de Newbnld', Fridaythorp',
Driffeld', Stillington', Fenton', Bugthorp' et Laghton'
propter defectuin reparacionum multum sunt ruinose, et
quamplures paciuntur defectus, quos nemo corrigit.J

* Apparently the chaplains of the civic guiltis or of chantries in the city which
were in the gift of the mayor and corporation. In York Mem. Book, ii., 17 sqq.
is an interesting document relating to a dispute between the communitas of
parish priests in York and the communitas of chantry and stipendiary priests in
1388, concerning the claim of mortuaries from the latter by the parish priests.
The mayor declared that all the chantries of the city and suburbs were, and are,
founded by the citizens and nobles of the city, and the chantry and stipendiary
priests " sunt speciales oratores civium, patronorum suorum et magistrorum
suorum, a quibus habent huiusmodi cantarias et stipendia, unde vivunt." The
case was decided in favour of the chantry priests.

f The incorporation of the chantry priests of the minster into St. William's
college did not take place till 1454-5.

J The two prebendaries of Newbald were Thomas Morton and Eichard
Leyot for accounts of whom see Visitations of Religious Houses (Lincoln
Record Soc.), i., 14, 215-6, 203-4. The other prebendaries were: Friday thorpe,
Thomas Chichele, archdeacon of Canterbury (ibid., i., 187-8) ; Driffield, Eobert
Rolleston, archdeacon of Durham and provost of Beverley (see note in
appendix) ; Stillington, Thomas Bekynton, archdeacon of Buckingham, afterwards
bishop of 'Bath and Wells (see Visitations of Religious Houses, ^tt sup., i.,
179-80) ; Fenton, John Langton (see note ** on p. 238 above) ; Bugthorpe,
Eichard Cordon or Broun, archdeacon of Rochester, coll. 1431; Laughton,
Prospero di Colonna, cardinal of San Giorgio in Velabro, coll. 1427, celebrated
for his classical tastes and excavations at the lake of Nemi.

£40 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ix. Item prebendarius de Vlfskelff'*" per diuersas vendi-
ciones boscorum dicte prebende graue vastum fecit in
eadern.

x. Item quod mercimonioram empcio et vendicio exer-
centur infra ecclesiam et limites eius, sicut in publico foro.

xj. Item quod multociens quibusdam vica riorum ecclesie
non datur facultas celebrandi missas propter defectum
ministrorum eorum, qui deberent eis in officio misse
ministrare.

xij. Item de peruersa interpretacione cuiusdam statuti,
ex cuius tenore videtur quod constituti in dignitatibus quibus
est annexa residencia iurata, et eandem residenciam obser-
uantes, participarent de communa : quod non faciunt.f

xiij. Item quod diaconi et subdiaconi ac portitores
torticiorum, carentes victu competent!, frequenter ob hoc se
subtrahunt et absentant ab officiis suis.

xiiij. Item de nimiis expensis in conuiuiis in introitu
faciencium residencias, ad quod iiullum statutum artat ;
per quod multi impediuntur a residencia, qui alias vellent
earn ad honorem Dei facere.J

xv. Item quod ipsi qui vocantur sub nomine capituli ad
visitacionern subeundam non admittuntur sub nomine capituii
ad correccionem de detectis faciendam.§

* Alan Kirkton, coll. before 1426.

f By the traditional statute, confirmed by the statute of residence in 1221,
the four dignitaries of the church, called persone because of the parsonage or
cure of souls annexed to their offices, viz., the dean, precentor, chancellor and
treasurer, were bound to quasi-continual residence. Accordingly, whether they
held prebends in the church or not, they were included as residentes with the
residentiary canons and prebendaries, and had a right to their share in the daily
distribution out of the common fund. The definition of residentes in the
statute of 1221 appears, however, to specify canonici only ; and it seems that
this was the perverse interpretation alluded to in the text. The subsequent
appropriation of the prebends of Laughton to the precentorship and Driffield to
the chancellorship in 1484 placed these dignitaries permanently among the
canonici prebendati : the prebend of Wilton had been appropriated to the
treasurership in 1241.

| K/esidentiaries keeping their prima residencia were bound by statute to
entertain at their table twice the number of servers and vicars whom a
residentiary was required to entertain in the ordinary course of things. As
during this period of inception they received nothing from the common fund,
the expense was in any case a serious consideration, and it is evident that
well-to-do canons had set an example of extravagance. In Henry VIII's
statutes canons were prohibited from residence unless they could shew incomes
of at least £100 a year, a desirable rule for the entertainer and entertained
alike.

§ I.e., corrections to be made by the chapter in common were made by a
few resident members, who did not trouble to summon a general chapter for the
purpose.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 241

xvj. Item quod illius statuti non fit execucio, tenore
cuius asseritur prebendarios teneri ad exhibendum capas in
ecclesia."*

xvij. Item quod decanus et capitulum non certificarunt
domino archiepiscopo correcciones defectuum in vltima
visitacione [f . 474 d] detectorum, prout tenebantur ; ex quo
multa detecta manent incorrecta.f

xviij. Item quod dominus Johannes More,, vicarius
ecclesie cathedralis, tenet concubinam ex opposite porte
vicariorum ; qui eciam vix semel vel bis in anno celebrat
missam.

xix. Item quod dominus Johannes Bradeway vix celebrat
duas missas in anno; et alij vicarij sunt consimilium
condicionum.

xx. Item quod quidam vicarij ecclesie diffamantur,J et
eis certa crimina imponuntur ; vnde scandalum ecclesie
generatur.

xxj. Item quod magister Eicardus ArnalP§ reputatur
minus valens ad portandum labores spectantes ad officium
auditoris|| capituli exercendum; occasione cuius defectus
ministrorum ecclesie manent incorrecti.

xxij. Item licet intitulati in dignitatibus, personatubus,^[
canonicatubus et prebendis in dicta ecclesia sint iurati ad
obseruandum statuta et consuetudines laudabiles ipsius
ecclesie, ille tamen consuetudines non sunt eis scripte
neque certe ; ita quod propter hoc iuiminet eis magnum
periculum anime. Petitur ergo quod scribantur et ponantur
in certo;

* Apparently the statute of 1325, by which each canonicus prebendatus who
had enjoyed the fruits of his prebend for three years was bound, on exchanging
it for another benefice, to present the church with a quire cope and a palfrey,
or 20 marks for the one and 10 marks for the other. The cope and palfrey
were ordinarily the mortuary paid by the executors of a prebendary on his
decease.

f See the documents relating to Bo wet's visitation of the dean and chapter
above, and the terms of Melton's composition below, for the point of this
injunction.

J Not defamed in the vague modern sense, but specifically accused.

§ See note in appendix. He had been sub-dean for forty years, and died
in the course of the following year.

t| I.e., audit oris causarum, with judicial functions in matters concerning the
chapter.

«[ The personatus are practically identical with the diynitates, including the
four residentiary dignities and the archdeaconries, incompatible benefices with
cures of souls attached.

242 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[Cominissio capitulo ad corrigendum comperta.]*

[Commission to the dean and chapter to correct the above
comperta (10 Sept., 1440).]

Johannes, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, etc., salutem,
graciam et benediccionem . Tenorem et formam [etc., as in
Bo wet's similar commission, p. 198 above. Dated at York
10 Sept., 1440].

6. PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS CAPELLE BEATE MARIE ET

SANCTORUM ANGELORUM EfiOR'.

[Notice of visitation of St. Sepulchre's chapel on 20 Sept., 1440
(6 Sept., 1440).]

Johannes, permissione diuina, etc., dilecto in Christo
filio officiali curie nostre Ebor', salutem, graciam et bene-
diccionem. Quia intendimus die Martis, videlicet vicesimo
die instantis mensis Septembris, sacristam et canonicos
capelle nostre beate Marie et sanctorum angelorum Ebor',
necnon vicarios, presbiteros et ceteros clerioos in eadem
miiiistrantes per Dei graciam visitare, vobis mandamus
quatinus citetis seu citari faciatis peremptorie dictos
sacristam, canonicos, vicarios et presbiteros, quod predicto
die Martis in eadem capella tempestiue coram nobis vel
commissariis nostris, pluribus aut vno, compareant, visita-
cionem nostram nostraque salubria monita, correcciones et
iniungenda cum debita et deuota reuerencia suscepturi,
litteras ordinum suoruin et titulos quos habere pretendunt
in prebendis et beneficiis que obtinent et quilibet eorum
obtinet in capella antedicta exhibituri et ostensuri, vlteriusque
facturi que eis vtinam proficiant, sicut pie cupimus, ad
salutem ; intimantes seu intimari facieiites sacriste capelle
nostre predicte quod ipsum a personal! comparicione in hac
prima visitacione nostra huiusmodi non intendimus habere
vllo modo excusatum propter iustas dicte capelle nostre
vtilitates, de quibus eidem, fauente Altissimo, iiiteiiditnus
prouidere. Et qualiter presens mandatum nostrum fueritis
executi nos aut dictos conimissarios nostros ad dictos diem
et locum certificetis distiiicte et aperte per litteras vestras
patentes, harum seriem ac nomina predictorum sacriste,
canonicorum, vicariorum, presbiterorum et clericorum
plenarie continentes. Data in manerio nostro de Rest',
sexto die mensis Septembris, anno Domini millesimo ccccmo
quadragesimo, et nostre translacionis anno sextodecimo.

* No marginal title in the register.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 243

[f. 475.] 7. PRO CLERO ET POPULO CIUITATIS EBOR'.

[Notice of visitation of the city of York, addressed to the
dean of the Christianity of the same. The form, with some
verbal variations, is that used by Bowet, p. 152 above. Dated
" in manerio nostro de Reste," 6 Sept., 1440.]

[Schedule detailing visitation.']

[1st day (22 Sept., 1440) : St. Margaret's, Walmgate.]
Eeuerendissimus in Christo pater et dominus, dominus
Johannes, permissione diuina tituli sancte Balbiiie presbiter
cardinalis, Ebor' archiepiscopus, Anglie primas et apostolice
sedis legatus supradictus, die Jouis, videlicet vicesimo secundo
die mensis Septembris, anno Domini supradicto, in ecclesia
parochiali sancte Margarete in Walmegate,* ciuitatis sue
Ebor', fauente Altissimo, visitabit eandem, necnon ecclesias
subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam parochialem sancti Nicholai
in Walmegate, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Edwardi,
ecclesiam parochialem sancti Petri in lez Wilowes, ecclesiam
parochialem Omnium Sanctorum in Fisshergate, ecclesiam
parochialem sancte Elene in Fisshergate, ecclesiam paro-
chialem sancti Georgij, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Dionisij
in Walmegate,, ecclesiam parochialem sancte Crucis in Fosse-
gate, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Saluatoris in Maresco,
ecclesiam parochialem Omnium Sanctorum in Maresco,
ecclesiam parochialem sancti Cuthberti, ecclesiam paro-
chialem sancte Elene in Aldewark', ecclesiam parochialem
sancte Trinitatis in Gothrumgate, ecclesiam parochialem
sancte Trinitatis in curia Regis, necnon clerum et populum
earundem ac populum ecclesie sancti Laurencij .

procuracio, iiij li.

[f. 475 d.] [2d day (23 Sept.) : All Saints, Pavement.]
Die Veneris vero, vicesimo tercio die dicti mensis prefatus
reuerendissimus pater in ecclesia parochiali Omnium
Sanctorum super pauimentum ciuitatis predicte, fauente
Altissimo, visitabit eandem necnon ecclesias subscriptas,
videlicet ecclesiam parochialem sancti Sainpsonis, ecclesiam
parochialem sancte Elene in Staynegate, ecclesiam parochialem
sancti Wilfridi, ecclesiam parochialem sancti Olaui, ecclesiam
parochialem sancti Petri paruam, ecclesiam beate Marie in
Oastelgate, necnon clerum et populum earundem ac populum

* The programme closely follows that of Bowet's visitation in May, 1409.

B 2

244 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ecclesiarum parochialium, videlicet ecclesie sancti Andree,
ecclesie sancti Martini in Conyngstrete, ecclesie sancti
Michaelis de Belfrey, ecclesie sancti Mauricij, ecclesie sancti
Johannis in Hundegate, ecclesie beate Marie in Laarthorp',
ecclesie sancti Johannis del Pike. procuracio, iiij li.

[3d day (24 Sept.) : St. Martiji's, MicUegate.] Die Sabbati
vero, vicesimo quarto die dicti men sis, predictus reueren-
dissimus pater in ecclesia parochiali sancti Martini in
Mikelgate, ciuitatis predicte, fauente Altissimo, visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesias subscriptas, videlicet ecclesiam
sancti Michaelis ad pontein Vse, ecclesiam Omnium
Sanctorum in Northstrete, ecclesiam sancti Gregorij, eccle-
siam sancti Mcholai in Mikelgate, ecclesiam beate Marie
veterem, ecclesiam sancti Clementis, capellam super pontem
Vse, ecclesiam parochialem de Popilton', necnon clerum et
populum earundem ac populum ecclesie sancti Johannis ad
pontem Vse. iiij li.

8. [INDULTUM EUGENIJ PAPE QUARTI, PEO VISITACIONE

INCHOATA PEE COMMISSAEIOS CONT1NUANDA AKCHIEPISCOPO

EBOE' CONCESSUM.]

[Indult from pope Eugenius IV. to archbishop Kempe, dispensing
him from personal visitation of his diocese, and allowing
him to appoint commissaries to visit and receive procura-
tions (9 Nov., 1440).]

Eugenius episcopus, seruus seruorum Dei, dilecto filio
Johanni, tituli sancte Balbine presbitero cardinali, salutem
et apostolicam benediccionem. Quanto Romanam ecclesiam,
cuius honorabile membrum existis, tuorum plenius honoras
magnitudine meritorum, tanto per earn attolli mereris fauore
gracie pocioris. Hinc est quod nos, tuis in hac parte
supplicacionibus inclinati, tibi, qui Ebor' ecclesie preesse
diiiosceris, et, vt asseris, ecclesias, monasteria, prioratus,
aliaque loca ecclesiastica secularia et regularia ciuitatis et
diocesis Ebor' eorumque personas, in qnibus tibi visitacionis
officium de iure seu consuetudine competit, visitare inchoasti,
vt, quarndiu in concilio seu parlameiitis regiis vel negociis
arduis regni Anglie occupatum, seu aliis legitiniis impedi-
mentis detentum, aut alias de nostro vel sedis apostolice
speciali mandate in Eomana curia seu alias extra regnuin
predictum te esse contigerit, per te aut aliquam seu aliquas
personam seu personas, quam seu quas ad hoc eligendam

245

seu eligendas duxeris, seu alios officiales aut commissaries
tuos pro tempore existentes et eorum singulos, iiichoatam
visitacionem huiusmodi continuare et perficere, necnon
ecclesias, monasteria, prioratus, loca et visitandas personas
supradicta, quociens tempus visitacioiiis ingruerit, visitare
eciam duo, tria, quatuor seu plura eorundem vno loco et
eadein die, necnon easdem visitandas personas ad locum et
diem huiusmodi conuocare, ac procuraciones integras in
pecunia iiumerata, ceteraque archiepiscopalia iura archi-
episcopo Ebor' tempore* ilia personaliter visitanti assignari
et persolui consueta ab eisdem ecclesiis, monasteriis, priora-
tibus, locis et persoiiis taliter visitatis et eorum singulis
racione visitacioiiis huiusmodi annis singulis semel dumtaxat
recipere ; quodque eciam personas visitatas ac ecclesiarum
tune visitandarum, necnon monasteriorum, prioratuum et
locorum predictorum prelatos, rectores et gubernatores pro
tempore, necnon eorum singulos, qui debitam satisfaccionem
procuracionum, et iurium ac aliorum consuetorum tibi racione
premissa pro tempore debitorum non fecerint, vt illam tibi
aut persone seu personis deputande vel deputandis, seu
officialibus vel commissariis huiusmodi et eorum singulis
integre faciant et exhibeant, per censuram ecclesiasticam et
alia iuris remedia, appellacione postposita, per te vel alium seu
alios, quociens expedi re videbitur, cogereet cornpellere possis et
valeas, plenam et liberam auctoritate apostolica tenor e presen-
cium facultatem concedimus, et eciam potestatem, nonobstan-
tibus, si alias tibi quod premissa infra diocesis Ebor' limites
consistencia ecclesias, monasteria, prioratus et loca eorumque
personas, vt prefertur, per te vel personam seu personas, aut
officiales sef commissaries huiusmodi, ad certum tempus,
eciam iam forsan vel non dum elapsum, visitare, et ab eis
racione talis visitacioiiis procuraciones et iura similia eciam
recipere valeres, apostolica fuerit auctoritate concessum, ac
felicis recordacionis Benedict! xij,{ Innocencij quarti§ et
Gregorij x,|| ac aliorum quorumlibet Romanorum pontificum,
predecessorum nostrorum, necnon LateranensisIT et Lug-
dunensis^^ conciliorum, et aliis apostolicis^ ac bone memorie
Ottoiiis et Ottoboni, olim in regno predicto sedis prefate

* Sic.

t Sic.

I Pope, 1334-5—42.

§ Pope, 1243—54.

|| Pope, 1271-2—1275-6.

TT The Lateraa oouacil of 1215, temp. Innocent 111.
** The second council of Lyons, 1274, temp. Gregory X.

246 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

legatoruin,* neciion in prouincialibus et sinodalibus conciliis
editis constitucionibus et ordinacionibus, statutis quoque et
consuetudinibus Ebor' ac ecclesiarum aliarum, monasteriorum,
prioratuum et locorum predictorum, eciain iuramento, con-
firmacione apostolica, vel quauis firmitate alia roboratis, ac
aliis priuilegiis, indulgences et litteris [f . 476] eciam aposto-
Hcis generalibus vel specialibus, quorumcuiique tenoruni
existant, per que, presentibus non expressa vel totaliter non
inserta, effectus huiusmodi gracie impediri valeat quomodo-
libet vel differri, et de quibus quorumque totis tenoribus de
verbo ad verbum habenda sit in nostris litteris mencio
specialis, ceterisque contrariis quibuscunque, aut si prelatis,
rectoribus, gubernatoribus et visitandis personis prefatis
communiter vel diuisim ab eadem sede indultum existat quod
interdici, suspendi vel excoinmunicari non possint per litteras
apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo
ad verbum de indulto huiusmodi mencionem. Nulli ergo
omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre concessionis
infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem
hoc attemptare presumpserit, indignacionem omnipotentis
Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum Eius se nouerit
incursurum. Data Florencie anno incarnacionis dominice
millesimo ccccmo quadragesimo, quinto idus Nouembris,
pontificatus nostri anno decimo.

[Commissio secundum tenorem indulti precedents. ]f

[Commission from the archbishop to William Felter and
others in accordance with the terms of the above indult
(20 Feb., 1440-1).]

Johannes, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, magistris Willelmo
Felter, decano, J Roberto Dobbes, precentori, Johanni Kexby,
cancellario, Johanni Bernyngham, thesaurario, et Johanni
Marchall', canonico ecclesie nostre cathedralis Ebor', salutem,
graciam et benediccionem. Licet, post susceptam a nobis
venerabilis Ebor' ecclesie cathedram, crebro nobis extiterit
officij debitum impendere commisso nobis gregi visitacionis
officium, quod licet hactenus iam diu est attemptare curaui-
mus, magnis tamen et arduis aliunde prepediti negociis, hoc
ipsum ad effectum desideratum deducere non valuimus, et

* The constitutions of Otho aiid Ottobuono were issued at London in 1238
and 1268.

t No marginal title in the register.

j For notes on Felter and the other clerks see appendix.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 247

iccirco Itidem rursum iam nuper aggredi et attemptare
curauimus, quadam, sicut nobis visum erat, spei firmitate
concepta quod ipsuin ad exitnm produceremus peroptatum.
Quia tamen propter alia tune insperata non exigua set
magna, non propria siue priuata set publica onera nobis de
post imposita, visitaciouis nostre huiusmodi per nos iam
nuper, vt pref ertur, inchoate execucioni personaliter intendere
non valemus, considerantes non minima animarum pericula
que ex vlteriori dilacione huiusmodi visitacionis nostre
formidantur euenire posse, visitacionis exercicium, vt pre-
fertur, inchoatum per alios ad hoc ydoiieos decreuimus
exequendum, secundum omnem vim et effectum indulti
apostolici super hoc nobis transmissi, cuius tenor sequitur
et est talis : Eugenius, etc. Quanto Eomanam ecclesiam,
etc. Et idcirco vobis et cuilibet vestrum, de quorum fideli-
tate, circumspeccione et industria, presertim in hiis que
regimen et salutem concernunt animarum, merito confidentes,
ad vlterius progrediendum in visitacione nostra huiusmodi,
ipsamque continuandam et perficiendam, ceteraque omnia et
singula facienda, exercenda et expedieiida secundum omnem
vim, f ormam et effectum litterarum apostolicarum huiusmodi,
committimus potestatem et vices nostras cum cuiuslibet
cohercionis canonice potestate. Data sub sigillo nostro in
hospicio nostro prope Westmonasterium, vicesimo die meiisis
Februarij, anno Domini predicto, et nostre translacionis anno
sextodecimo.

9. [PEEMUNICIO DECANI EBOR' COMMISSAEIJ PEE DOMINUM
AECHIEPISCOPUM AD HOC DEPUTATI, PEO VISITACIONE
AECHIDIACONATUS

[Notice by William Felter, commissary, of visitation of the
archdeaconry of York (4 March, 1440-1).]

Willelmus Eelter, decanus ecclesie cathedralis Ebor',
reuerendissimi in Christo patris et domini, domini Johannis,
permissione diuina tituli sancte Balbine presbiteri cardinalis,
Ebor' archiepiscopi, Anglie primatis et apostolice sedis
legati, ad vlterius procedendum et progrediendum in visita-
cione pref ati reuerendissimi patris alias per ipsum personaliter
incepta, ipsamque visitacionem continuandam et perficiendam
secundum vim, formam et effectum indulti apostolici super
hoc iam nuper traiismissi, vna cuin aliis collegis nostris cum

* No marginal title in register.

248 VISITATION DOCUMENTS*

hac clausula, vobis coniunctim et diuisim, commissar ius
specialiter deputatus, dilecto nobis in Christo archidiacono
Ebor' seu eius official!, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Quia
clerum et populum archidiaconatus vestri ad roboracionem
virtutum morumque reformacionem et viciorum extirpacionem
intendimus auctoritate prefati reuerendissimi patris,, diuina
fauente clemencia, visitare, vobis in virtute sancte obediencie
[etc., as in Bowet's similar notice of visitation,, p. 155 above,
with several small variations. " Ordinariam " is omitted
after " visitacionem nostram," and obedience is to be sworn,
not to the commissaries, but " pref ato reuereiidissirno patri."
Dated at York, " sub sigillo quo vtimur in hoc officio,"
4 March, 1440-1. " 29 H. 6 " is added in a later hand].

[Schedule detailing above visitation."]

[f. 476 d.] [1st day (20 March, 1440-1) : Visitation of
St. Mary's abbey, York.] Eeuerendus dominus magister
Willelmus Felter, decretorum doctor, decanus ecclesie cathe-
dralis Bbor', reuerendissimi in Christo patris, etc., commis-
sarius, vna cum aliis collegis suis cum hac clausula,
coniunctim et diuisim, ad visitandum clerum et populum
Ebor' diocesis, iuxta vim, formam et effectum indulti
apostolici super hoc transmissi, specialiter deputatus, die
Lune in tercia septimana Quadragesime, videlicet vicesimo
die mensis Marcij anno Domini supradicto, visitabit nionas-
terium beate Marie Ebor'.1* cs.

[2d day (21 March) : Visitation of St. Clement's priory,
York.] Die Martis in dicta septimana Quadragesime, vide-
licet xxj° die dicti mensis Marcij, idem reuerendus dominus
visitabit prioratum sancti dementis iuxta Ebor'.f

Procuracio nulla.

[3d day (22 March) : Visitation of Healaugh park priory,
etc.'] Die Mercurij in dicta septimana Quadragesime, vide-
licet xxij° die mensis predicti, in prioratu de Helagh' parke
visitabit eundem, J necnon ecclesiam parochialem de Helagh',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam parochialem de WighalP,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam parochialem de Marston',

* See notice printed below, p. 265.

f See memorandum of notice below, p. 256.

j See memorandum of notice below, p. 256.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS* 249

ecclesiam parochialem de Rughford', ecclesiam parochialem
de Biltong vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Colthorp', eccle-
siam de Moremonkton, ecclesiam de Tadcastre, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Walton'.*

procuracio domini hac die tantuin cs.

day (23 March) : Aberford.] Die Jouis in dicta
septimana Quadragesime, videlicet xxiij0 die eiusdem mensis
Marcij, idem dominus cornmissarius in ecclesia de Abirford'
visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Garford', ecclesiam de Kipax, vicariam eiusdem, f ecclesiam
de Ledesham, vicariam eiusdem,;}; ecclesiam de Saxton',
[f . 476] § ecclesiam de Thorner', ecclesiam de Berwike.

procuracio hac die cs.

[5th day (24 March) : Harewood.] Die Veneris in tercia
septimana dicte Quadragesime, videlicet xxiiij0 die mensis
Marcij predicti, idem dominus comniissarius in ecclesia de
Herwod' visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Spoford', ecclesiam de Dighton', ecclesiam de Kirkeby-
ouerblawers, ecclesiam de Weston', vicariam eiusdem, eccle-
siam de Fuston', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de PannalP,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Collynghain, vicariam eius-
dem. procaracio hac die cs.

[Qth day (25 March) : Visitation of Arthington and Esholt
priories.] Die Sabbati in dicta septimana Quadragesime,
viz., xxv° die mensis Marcij predicti, dictus dominus decanus
visitabit prioratum de Arthyngton ante nonam, et post
nonam apud Esshold' visitabit eundem. Et erit in nocte
apud Kirkstair.il nil.

17 th day (26 March) : Kirkstall abbey.] Die dominica
proxiine tune sequeiiti, videlicet xxvj° die mensis Marcij
predicti, idem dominus decanus erit per totum diem apud
KirkestalP.

[8^ day (27 March) : Leeds.] Die Lune proximo tune
sequenti, videlicet xxvij0 die dicti mensis, idem venerabilis
dominus in ecclesia parochiali de Ledez visitabit eandem

* Omitted from Bowet's visitation schedule.

f Vicarage ordained in 1410, after Bowet's visitation. App. to Pontefract
priory.

J Omitted from Bowet's visitation schedule.

§ Sic. Several errors occur in the foliation of this register.

|| See notice below, p. 256.

250 VISITATION DOCUMENTS

necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Swillyngton*, ecclesiam
Whitekirk',* vicariam eiusdern, ecclesiam de Bardese}^
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Adill'.

procuracio domini cs.

[9th day (28 March) : Bradford.] Die Martis proxime
tune sequent!, videlicet xxviij0 die mensis predicti, prefatus
venerabilis commissarius in ecclesia de Bradford'f visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, J ecclesiam de Halifax^
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Caluerley, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Bristall', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Batley,
vicariam eiusdem. procuracio cs.

[Wth day (29 March) : Dewsbury.'] Die Mercurij proxime
tune sequent!, videlicet xxix° die mensis Marcij predicti, in
ecclesia de Devesbury visitabit eandem necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Huddersf eld', vicariam eiusdem, eccle-
siam de Hetoii', ecclesiam de Mirfeld', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de ThornehilT, ecclesiam de Almundbury, ecclesiam
de Birton', vicariam eiusdem. procuracio cs.

[11 th day (30 March) : Wakefield.] Die Jouis, videlicet
xxxmo die mesis§ predicti, idem venerabilis pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Wakefeld' visitabit eandem necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de SaiidalP, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Warmefeld', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rothewell',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Emley, ecclesiam de Wod-
kirk.|| procuracio cs.

day (31 March) : St. Oswald'' s priory.] Die Veneris
proxime tune sequenti, videlicet vltimo die mensis Marcij, in
prioratu sancti Oswaldi de Nostell' prefatus reuerendus
dominus visitabit ecclesiam de Normanton necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Metheley, ecclesiam de Akworth',
ecclesiam de Fetherstone, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Oofton', ecclesiam de Castelforth'. procuracio cs.

* Sic.

f The visitation of the deanery of Aiusty is interrupted here, and that of
the deanery of Pontefract begins.

J The appropriation of Bradford church to the Newarke college, Leicester,
had been effected in 1416, since Bowet's visitation. See note JJ on p. 161.

§ Sic.

|| App. to St. Oswald's priory. Omitted from Bowet's visitation, but see
note ** on p. 162 above .

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 25l

day (1 April) : Visitation of St. Oswald's priory.~\
Die yero Sabbati proxime tune sequent!, videlicet primo die
mensis Aprilis^ in dicto prioratu sancti Oswaldi* visitabit
eundem. procuracio cs.

[14th day (2 April) : PontefractJ] Die dominica proxime
tune sequent! per totum diem requiescendo apud Ponte-
fraetuni.

[15th day (3 April) : Pontefract.] Die Lune, videlicet
iij° die dicti mensis Aprilis, prefatus reuerendus dominus
visitavifcf in ecclesia parochiali de Pontefraeto visitabit J
eandem necnon vicariam. eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wymmersley,
vicariam eiusdem,, ecclesiam de Kelyngton', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiarn de Friston', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Derthyngton', vicariam eiusdenx, ecclesiam de Brekkyn';§
ecclesiam de Baddesworth'. procuracio cs.

[f. 476 d.] [16th day (5 April) : Visitation of Drax
priory, etc.'] Die Mercurij,, videlicet quinto die mensis
predicti in prioratu de Drax|| visitabit eundem necnon
ecclesiam de Drax, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Brayton',
vicariam eiusdem. procuracio hac die cs.

[17th day (6 April) : Visitation of Selby abbey, etc.] Die
Jouis proxime tune sequenti, videlicet vjto die mensis Aprilis
predicti, prefatus dominus commissarius visitabit in monas-
terio de Selby^j ante nonam idem monasterium. Et post
nonam ecclesiam de Selby et populmn iurisdiccionis eiusdem.

procuracio cs.

[18th day (7 April) : Visitation of Nunappleton priory, etc.]
Die Veneris proxime tune sequenti, prefatus dominus com-
missarius in prioratu de Appiltoul visitabit eundem necnon
ecclesiam de Either', ecclesiam de Boltonpercy, ecclesiam de
Acastre, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Askenain Kichard',

* See memorandum of notice, p. 256 below.

f Sic.

I Sic.

§ Birkin was in the deanery of Ainsty., and Badsworth in the deanery of
Doncaster. Pontefract, however, was a very convenient centre of visitation for
both.

|| See memorandum of visitation, p. 256 below. At this point Telter
returned to the deanery of Ainsty, on his way back to York for Holy week and
Easter.

T See memorandum of visitation, p. 256 below.

52 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Bilburgh', ecclesiam de
Askeham Bryan', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rugh-
ford'.* procuracio cs.

[19th day (24 April) : Barnsley.] Die Lune, xxiiij die
mensis Aprilis,t in eapella de BarneslayJ visitabit eandem
necnon ecclesiam de Silkeston', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Peny stone, vicariam eiusdem, § ecclesiam de Tankerslay,
ecclesiam de Darton', ecclesiam de Holand', ecclesiam de
Ruston', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Eelkirk', vicariam
eiusdem. procuracio cs.

[Visitation of Monkbretton priory.'] Et post nonam
visitabit prioratum de Monkebretton'|| et pernoctabit
ibidem.

[20th day (25 April) : Wath-on-Dearne.~\ Die Martis,
xxv° die mensis predicti, in ecclesia de Wath' visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,^[ ecclesiam de Hikelton',
vicariam eiusdem,*"* ecclesiam de Bolton, vicariam eiusdem, ff
ecclesiam de Adwike, capellam de Worn well, JJ ecclesiam
de ,§§ ecclesiam de Thrynscogh'.||||

Et pernoctavitlTl apud Roderham. procuracio cs.

[21st day (26 April) : Rotherham.~\ Die Mercurij, xxvj° die
eiusdem mensis Aprilis, in ecclesia de Roderham visitabit
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Romerssh',
ecclesiam de Ecclesfeld', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Thribergh', ecclesiam de Wikesley,^^^ ecclesiam de Hoton
Robert'. procuracio cs.

* Scheduled already for 22 March,
f Monday after Low Sunday.

J In Silkstone parish, not mentioned in Bowet's schedule. Here begins the
visitation of the deanery of Doncaster.

§ Penistone was app. to St. Stephen's, Westminster. The vicarage was
ordained in 1413, after Bowet's visitation.

|| See memorandum of notice, p. 256 below.

•f This vicarage, not mentioned in Bowet's schedule, was re-ordained in
1410, after his visitation. The church was app. to St. Nicholas' hospital,
Pontefract.

•* Hickleton was app. to Monkbretton priory in 1386. The vicarage is not
mentioned in Bowet's schedule, and there seems to be no existing ordination
of one.

ft Omitted from Bowet's schedule.
jj In Darfield parish. Omitted from Bowet's schedule.
$ § Sic. Probably Darfield is meant.
Illl Omitted from Bowet's schedule.
Iff Sic.
*** Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 253

[22d day (27 April) : Aston.'] Die Jouis, xxvij0 die
mensis Aprilis, in ecclesia parochiali de Aston visitabit
eandem necnon ecclesiam de Herthill', ecclesiam de Treton,
ecclesiam de Whiston, ecclesiam de Sheffeld', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Todwik', ecclesiam de Dynyngton',
ecclesiam de Maltby, vicariam eiusdem.

procuracio cs.

[EocJie abbey.] Et pernoctabit in monasterio de Eupe,
qui dominum procurabunt in esculentis et poculentis racione
primi aduentus sui.*

[23d day (28 April) : TicJchill.] Die Veneris, xxviij0 die
mensis Aprilis, in ecclesia de TikhylP visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem,t ecclesiam de BrathewelP, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Connysburgh', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Edlyngton, ecclesiam de Staynton, vicariam
eiusdem, J ecclesiam de Warmes worth'. procuracio cs.

Et pernoctabit ibidem.

[24th day (29 April) : Hatfield.] Die Sabbati, xxix° die
mensis Aprilis, in ecclesia de Haitefeld' visitabit eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Bramwith7. ecclesiam
de Fisshelake, vicariam eiusdem [f. 477], ecclesiam de
Barneby, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Armethorp',§
ecclesiam de SandalP, ecclesiam de Cantley, vicariam
eiusdem. procuracio cs.

Et pernoctabit apud Doncastre.

(30 April) : Doncaster.] Die dominica, vltimo
die dicti mensis Aprilis, in ecclesia parochiali Doncastrie
visitabit eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,, ecclesiam de
Spoteburgh',11 ecclesiam de Athewik', ecclesiam de Melton,
ecclesiam de Broddesworth', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Arkesay, ecclesiam de Barneburgh'. procuracio cs.

Et pernoctabit ibidem.

[26th day (1 May) : Visitation of Hampole priory : Camp-
sail.'] Die Lune, primo die mensis Maij, anno Domini

* See memorandum of notice, p. 257 below.
f Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

} The church was app. to St. Oswald's priory. The vicarage had recently
been ordained in 1440.

§ Omitted from Bowet's schedule.
| Sic.

254 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

supradicto, in ecclesia conuentuali dooms monialium de
Hampole* ante nonam visitabit eandem [nil] , et post nonam
in ecclesia de Camsall' visitabit eandem necnon ecclesiara de
Burghwales, ecclesiam de Hoton PannalP, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Sineton', ecclesiam de Ouston', ecclesiam de
Hy mines worth', ecclesiam de Southkirkby, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Adwik'.f procuracio cs.

Et pernoctabit apud Snayth'.

[27th day (2 May) : SnaitTi.'] Die Lune, secundo die
mensis Maij, anno Domini supradicto, in ecclesia parochiali
de Snayth' J visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de Athelyng-
flete, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Whitgyft ac capellas
pendentes ab eisdem necnon clerum et populum earundem.

Et pernoctabit apud Selby. procuracio cs.

\_2Sth day (15 July) : Otley.~] Reuerendi viri magistri
Johannis Kexby, cancellarius, et Johannes MarchalP,
canonicus ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', prefati reuerendissimi
patris commissarij vt premittitur deputati, die Sabbati,
xv° die mensis Julij, anno Domini supradicto, in ecclesia
parochiali de Ottelay§ visitabuiit eandem necnon vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Lethelay, ecclesiam de Giselay cum
capellis ab eisdem dependentibus necnon clerum et populum
earundem. Is.

[29th day (16 July) : Visitation of Bolton priory.] Et
pernoctabuiit in prioratu de Bolton' in Craven, || et in crastino
visitabunt eundem. procuracio cs.

[3Qth day (17 July) : GargraveJ] Die Lune, xvij° die
mensis Julij, anno Domini m0ccccmoxlj0, in ecclesia parochiali
de Gargrave visitabunt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Gisburn', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de

* See memorandum of notice, p. 256 below.

t Adwick-le-Street, already included in the programme for 30 April.

t Visitation of the spirituality of Snaith. See note f on p. 175 above.
Whitgift and its chapels, app. to Selby abbey, are not specifically mentioned in
Bowet's visitation of this jurisdiction, and Bowet visited Adlingfleet at
Pontefract.

§ The second part of the visitation begins with the archbishop's peculiar
jurisdiction of Otley, and proceeds to the deanery of Craven.

j| See note JJ on p. 160 above. It will be noticed that no parish church is
mentioned here. For memorandum of notice, see p. 256 below.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 255

Mitton', vicariam eiusdem,* ecclesiam de Gigleswyk', vicariam
eiusdem,, ecclesiam de Slayteburn^f ecclesiam de Kirkby in
Malogh', vicariam eiusdem neciion clerum et populum
earundem. Et pernoctabunt apud Gargrave.

procuracio cs.

[Slst day (18 July) : Skipton.'] Die Martis, xviij0 die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Skipton visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Arneclyff',
ecclesiam de Lynton, que est diuisa,J ecclesiam de BrinsalP,
que est diuisa, ecclesiam de Ketilwell', que est diuisa,
ecclesiam de Broghton', ecclesiam de Bracewell', vicariam
eiusdein, ecclesiam de Bolton in Bowland'§ necnon clerum et
populum earundem. Et pernoctabunt apud Skipton'.

procuracio cs.

day (19 July) : Bingley.~\ Die Mercurij, xix° die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Bynglay visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kighlay,
ecclesiam de Adyngham, ecclesiam de Ilkelay, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Carleton', ecclesiam de Kildwik',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Marton', ecclesiam de
Thorneton' [f. 477 d], ecclesiam de Preston7, vicariam
eiusdem necnon clerum et populum eorundeni. Et pernocta-
bunt apud Harwod'. procuracio cs.

PREMUNICIO VISITACIONIS MONASTERIJ BEATE MARIE EBOR.'

[Notice of visitation of St. Mary's abbey, York, on
20 March, 1440-1 (3 March, 1440-1).]

Willelmus Felter, decretorum doctor, decanus ecclesie
cathedralis beati Petri Ebor', reuerendissimi in Christo
patris et domini, domini Jobannis, perrnissione diuina tituli
sancte Balbine presbiteri cardinalis, Ebor' arcliiepiscopi,
Anglie priniatis et apostolice sedis legati commissarius,
vnacum aliis collegis nostris cum bac clausula, coniunctim
et diuisim, ad vlterius procedendum et progredienduui in
visitacione prefati reuerendissimi patris alias per ipsum
personaliter incepta, ipsamque visitacionem continuandam
et perficiendam secundum omnem vim, formam et effectual

* Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

f Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

J I.e., there were two medieties.

§ See note Jt on p. 160 above.

256 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

indulti apostolic! super hoc iatn nuper transmissi, specialiter
deputatus, dilectis nobis in Christo abbati et conuentui
inonasterij beate Marie Ebor', salute in in omnium Saluatore.
Quia intendimus per Dei graciam die Lune in tercia
septimana Quadragesime iain instantis, videlicet vicesimo
die mensis Marcij,* vos in capitulo dicti inonasterij vestri ad
vestrarum correccionem animarum intueri, ac visitaeionis
officium apud vos piis affectibus exercere, vobis tenore
preseiicium auctoritate qua fungimur iniungimus et manda-
mus, aceciarn vos peremptorie citamus, quatinus vos omnes
et singuli dictis die et loco coram nobis seu collegis nostris
compareatis et vestram votiuam presenciam exhibeatis,
visitaeionis nostre officiurn nostraque salubria monita,
correcciones et iniungenda debita et deuota reuerencia
subituri et recepturi, ex quibus fructum producat Altissimus,
qui vobis, sicut pie cupimus, proficeatf ad salutem. Con-
fratres insuper vestros mine absentes, si qui sint [etc.,
following the general tenour of Bowet's notice for Healaugh
park, p. 166 above. Dated at York, 3 March.]

[This is followed by memoranda of similar notices to
the Benedictine prioress and convent of Clementhorpe
(21 March), J to the priors and convents of Healaugh park
(22 March), St. Oswald's (1 April), Monkbretton (24 April),
Drax (5 April), and Bolton (16 July), the prioresses and
convents of Hampole (1 May) and Nunappleton (7 April),
and the abbot and convent of Selby (6 April).]

LlTTERA DIRECTA ABBATI ET CONUENTUI DE KlRKESTALI/
RACIONE PRIMI ADUENTUS.

[Notices to KirJcstall and Roche abbeys, exempt houses
(4 March, 1440-1).]

Willelmus Felter, etc., dilectis nobis in Christo abbati et
conuentui de Kirkestall', ordinis Cisterciensis, Ebor' diocesis,
salutem in Domino. Quia vicesimo sexto die instantis
mensis Marcij§ in prefati reuerendissimi patris visitaeionis

* See schedule of visitation, p. 248 above.

f Sic.

t Bowet visited neither St. Mary's abbey nor Clementhorpe priory in his
visitation of 1409. Nunneries were for the most part left out of his programme,
e.g., Hampole, Arthington and Esholt. These two last do not appear here among
the convents to which notices were sent by Kempe's commissaries.

§ Cf. p. 249 above.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 257

progressu transituri, intendimus ad monasterium vestrum de
Kirkestall' declinare, procuracionem a vobis racione primi
aduentus nostri huiusmodi prefato reuerendissimo patri et
nobis debitam, ac hospicium in monasterio vestro vestris
surnptibus recepturi, vos super hoc tenore presencium
censuimus premunire vt interim possitis parare omnia que
incumbunt. Data Ebor', sub sigillo quo vtimur in hoc
officio, quarto die mensis Marcij, anno Domini supradicto.

EUP'. Item alia consimilis littera directa fuit abbati et
conueritui de Eupe.*

[f. 485.] 10. NOTYNGHAM.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of Nottingham,
issued in the names of Felter, Dobbes, Kexby, Bernyngham
and Marchall, Kempe's commissaries " coniunctim et
diuisim," dated at York, " sub sigillo quo vtimur in hoc
officio," 12 April, 1441. The form followed, with several
small variations, is that used by Bowet for the archdeaconry
of York, p. 155 above. See also the variations noted in the
commissaries' notice for York archdeaconry, p. 247 above.]

[Schedule detailing visitation.]

[f. 485 d.] [1st day (9 May, 1441) : Blyth.] Eeuerendi
viri magistri Johannes Kexby, cancellarius, et Johannes
Marchall', canonicus ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', prefati
reuerendissimi patris commissarij vt prernittitur deputati,
die Martis, nono die Maij, anno Domini millesimo ccccmoxlj° in
ecclesia parochiali de Blithe visitabunt eandem necnon
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Herworth', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Eosyngton', ecclesiam de Fynnyngley, ecclesiam
de Wisyn',f vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Carleton' in
Lyndrig', ecclesiam de Gryndley, ecclesiam de Clawworth',
ecclesiam de Wheteley, vicariam eiusdem. cs.

Et erunt ibidem in prandio et cena.

\_2d day (10 May) : Visitation of Blyth priory.] Et in
crastino visitabunt prioratum de Blithe. nil.

[3d day (11 May) : Rufford abbey.] Et perhendinabunt
in nocte et die sequenti apud Eutford' racione iocuiidi
aduentus domini. nil.

* For 27 April : see p. 253 above.
f Sic,

258 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[4th day (12 May) : Worksop.] Die Veneris, xij° die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Wirkesop' visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Billesthorp',
ecclesiam de Cokeney, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Wersop', ecclesiam de Elkesley, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Ordesall', ecclesiam de West B/etford', ecclesiam de
Babworth', ecclesiam de Kirkton', ecclesiam de Walesby.*

cs.

[5th day (13 May) : Visitation of Worksop priory. ,] Et in
crastino visitabunt prioratum de Wirksop'. cs.

[6th day (14 May) : Welbeck abbey.~\ Die dominica,
xiiij0 die mensis predicti, perhendinabunt tota die in monas-
terio de Welbek'. nil.

[7th day (15 May) : East Retford.~] Die Lune, xv° die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Est Eetford' visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Estmarke-
ham,f ecclesiam de Westmarkeham, ecclesiam de Tuxford,
ecclesiam de Eg-manton', ecclesiam de Boghton', ecclesiam
de Gamylston', Grove, Hedon',,^ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Lytilburgh', ecclesiam de Vddynstowe,§ cum capella de
Alverton'.|| cs.

[Sth day (16 May) : Matter sey.~\ Die Martis, xvj° die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia de Mathersay visitabunt eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Misterton', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Walkyiigbam,! vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Sawndeby, ecclesiam de Burton, ecclesiam de
Stretton', ecclesiam de Southleuerton', ecclesiam de Teres-
welP. cs.

Et pernoctabunt ibidem.

[9th day (17 May) : Weston-in-the-Clay .~] Die Mercurrj,
xvij die Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Weston'*"* visitabunt
eandem ac ecclesiam de Sutton', vicariam eiusdem,, ecclesiam
de Laxton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Cromwell',

* Vicarage not mentioned.

f Vicarages of East and West Markham not mentioned
t A presentable rectory, with a vicarage ordained.
§ Vicarage not mentioned.
|| Ollerton, not mentioned in Bowet's schedule.
1[ Sic.
** The visitation of Newark deanery begins here.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 259

ecclesiam de KnesalP, ecclesiam de Ekeryng', eeclesiam de
Hokerton', ecclesiam de Auerham, ecclesiam de South'
Muskeham,* vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Fledburgh',
ecclesiam de Ossyngton'.f cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Weston'.

[10th day (18 May) : Kelham.] Die Jouis, xviij0 die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Kellom visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem4 ecclesiam de Normanton',
vicariam eiusdem,, ecclesiam de Marnehanx, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Clyfton', vicariam eiusdem, § ecclesiam de
Thornehaw, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de South' Scarle,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de ColynghamJI ecclesiam de
Wynkburn'.H cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Newerk'.

[f. 486.] [llth day (19 May) : Newark.] Die Veneris,
xix° die Maij,, in ecclesia parochiali de Newerk' visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hawton',
ecclesiam de Faredon', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Thorp', vicariam eiusdem,** ecclesiam de Stoke, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Elleston', ecclesiam de Shelton',
ecclesiam de Barneby, vicariam eiusdem. cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Newerk'.

[12th day (20 May) : Sibthorpe.] Die Sabbati, xx° die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Sibthorp',ft visitabunt eandem
ac ecclesiam de Kilvyngton', ecclesiam de Staunton', eccle-
siam de Cothom', vicariam eiusdem, JJ ecclesiam de Wyn-
thorp', ecclesiam de Southcolyngham, eccJesiam de Orston',,
vicariam eiusdem cum capellis ab eisdem dependentibus,JJ
ecclesiam de What ton', vicariam eiusdem. Jt es-

[13th day (21 May) : Bingham.] Die dominica, xxj° die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Byngham visitabunt eandem

* Apparently an error for North Muskham. See note | on p. 170 above.

t Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

j Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

§ Not mentioned in Bowet's schedule.

|| North Collingham.

^[ Not mentioned in Bowet's schedule.
** Not mentioned in Bowet's schedule.

ft This day's visitation concludes that of Newark deanery. Orston and
Whatton were in Bingham deanery.
|| Not mentioned in Bowet's schedule.

S %

260 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ac ecclesiam de Flyntham,* ecclesiam de Hokesworth',
ecclesiarn de Kirketon',t ecclesiam de Keyrecolston', eccle-
siam de Bryo-hfurd', ecclesiam de Screton', ecclesiam de
Elleton', ecclesiam de Plomptre, ecclesiam de Shelford',
ecclesiam de Saxendale, ecclesiam de Teythby. cs.

\\Uli day (22 May) : Visitation of Shelford priory.'] Et
in crastino visitabunt prioratum de Shelford'. Is.

[15M day (23 May) : Ruddington.~\ Die Martis, xxiij0 die
Maij,, in ecclesia parochiali de Rodyngton' visitabunt eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem, J ecclesiam de RadclyfP super Sore,
vicariam eiusdem, § ecclesiam de Goteham, ecclesiam de
Cottegrave, ecclesiam de Keyworth', ecclesiam de Bonay,
ecclesiam de Normanton' super Sore, ecclesiam de Remmes-
ton', ecclesiam de Stanford', ecclesiam de Leke cum capella
ab ea dependente, ecclesiam de Sutton', ecclesiam de
Bennyngton',|| ecclesiam de Wysow, ecclesiam de Cottelyng-
stoke,^[ ecclesiam de Thorlaton', ecclesiam de Thorp in
Glebis. cs.

[Wth day (24 May) : Clifton.'] Die Mercurij, xxiiij0 die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Clyffton', visitabunt eandem
ac ecclesiam de Wilf ord', ecclesiam de Bregeford' ad pontem,
ecclesiam de Radclyff super Trent, vicariam eiusdem,*"* eccle-
siam de Holme, ecclesiam de Kneton, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Gramby, vicariam eiusdem,,tt ecclesiam de
Langar', ecclesiam de Colton' Basset,JJ vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Hykelyng', ecclesiam de Wydemerpole, ecclesiam
de Wilogheby, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Broghton',
ecclesiam de Barton'. cs.

[17 'th day (25 May) : St. Mary's, Nottingham.'] Die Jouis,
xxv° die Maij, in ecclesia parochiali beate Marie Not'§§
visitabunt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem^ ecclesiam beati

* Vicarage omitted.

t Sic.

J Omitted from Bowet's schedule. The church was app. to Durham college,
Oxford.

§ Omitted from Bowet's schedule. The church was app. to Burscough
priory, Lanes.

|| Sie.

f Sic.

** Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to Thurgarton priory,
ft Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to Thurgarton priory.
JJ Sic.
§ § Beginning of the visitation of Nottingham deanery.

VISITATION DOCUMENT^ 261

Petri, ecclesiam beati Nicholai, ecclesiam de Lenton',
vicariam eiusdem,* ecclesiam de Beeston', vicariam eiusdem,*
ecclesiam de Colwik' [f. 486 d], ecclesiam de Bayseford',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de ArnalP, vicariam eiusdem5/*
ecclesiam de Radford', vicariam eiusdem.* cs.

[Lenton priory. ,] Et pernoctabunt in prioratu de Lenton',
et ibidem erunt in prandio. nil.

[18th day (26 May) : Thurgarton.] Die Veiieris, xxvj die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Thurgarton visitabunt eandem
ac ecclesiam de Gonaldston', ecclesiam de Lowdham, eccle-
siam de Gedelyng', vicariam eiusdem/* ecclesiam de
Haueryngham, ecclesiam de Burton' Jorcy, ecclesiam de
Lamley, ecclesiam de Estwhayt, ecclesiam de Ebirston'.

cs.

[19th day (27 May) : Visitation of Thurgarton priory.] Et
in crastiiio visitabunt prioratum de Thurgarton'. cs.

[20th day (28 May) : Annesley.] Die dominica, xxviij0 die
Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Andesley visitabunt eandem
necnon vicariam eiusdem,"* ecclesiam de Strelley, ecclesiam
de Brokstow [vacat] ,f ecclesiam de Bilburgh/, ecclesiam de
Wollaton', ecclesiam de Adyngburgh', ecclesiam de Stapil-
ford', ecclesiam de Trowell5, ecclesiam de Grrysseley, vicariam
eiusdem,,"* ecclesiam de Papilwik', ecclesiam de Huknall',
ecclesiam de BulwelP, ecclesiam de Lyndby, ecclesiam de
Sileston'., ecclesiam de NuthalP. cs.

[21s/ day (29 May) : Visitation of Newstead priory. ~\ Et
pernoctabunt in prioratu de Nouo loco, et in crastiiio
visitabunt eundem prioratum. Ixs.

day (30 May) : Visitation of Felley priory, Mansfield.]
Die Martis, xxxmo die Maij, ante nonam visitabunt prioratum
de Felley. nil.

Efc post nonam in ecclesia parochiali de Mawncefeld'
visitabunt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem cum capella de
Mawncefeld Wodhows,J ecclesiam de Kirkby, ecclesiam de
TereshalP, ecclesiam de Sutton'.

Et ibidem pernoctabunt.

* Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

f Broxtow church was united to Bilborough by decree of archbishop William
Bothe, 26 April, 1458, at the petition of Robert Strelley, esq. Owing to the
depopulation of Broxtow, the church provided no living for an incumbent, and
was not served. (Reg. W. Bothe, f. 236 and d.)

^ Mansfield Woodhousa, omitted from Bo wet's schedule.

26£ VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[23d day (31 May) : Visitation of Wallingwells priory.']
Die Mercurij, vltimo die Maij, visitabunt in prioratu de
WellyngwelP, etc. nil.

[f. 483.] 11. CLYUELAND'.

[Notice of visitation of the archdeaconry of Cleveland,
in the name of Felter, etc., almost identical, mutatis mutandis,
with the notice for Nottingham archdeaconry, p. 257 above.
Dated at York, 20 April, 1441.]

[Schedule detailing visitation.]

[f. 483 d.] [1st day (19 June, 1441) : Dunning ton.}
Reuerendi viri magistri Johannes Kexby, cancellarius, et
Johannes MarchalP, canonicus ecclesie cathedralis Ebor',
prefati reuerendissinii patris commissarij vt premittitur
deputati, die Lune, xix° die mensis Junij, anno Domini
millesimo ccccmoxlj in ecclesia parochiali de Donyngton'
visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Stillyngflete, vicariain
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Escrik', ecclesiam de Wheldrik',
ecclesiam de Eluyngton'. cs.

[Zd day (20 June) : BossalL] Die Martis, xxmo die mensis
predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de BossalP visitabunt eandem
cum capella ac vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hemelsay,
ecclesiam de Crambum, vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de
ITosseton', ecclesiam de Brandesby, ecclesiam de Buhner',
ecclesiam de Tyveryngton', ecclesiam de Dalby, ecclesiam de
Wheneby, ecclesiam de Marton5, ecclesiam de Hoton vice-
comitis, vicariam eiusdem. cs.

[3d day (21 June) : Visitation of Marion priory.] Et
pernoctabunt in prioratu de Martoii' et in crastino visitabunt
eundem. cs.

[4>th day (22 June) : Easing w old. ~] Die Jouis, xxij° die
mensis Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Esyngwald' visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Sutton',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Huntyngton', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Ouerton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Newton', ecclesiam de Miton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Brafforton', ecclesiam de Sesay, ecclesiam de Thor-
mondby. cs.

[5th day (23 June) : New burgh priory.] Et pernoctabunt
in prioratu de Nouo Burgo et in crastino visitabunt
eundem. cs.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 263

[6th day (24 June) : Thirsk.~\ Die Sabbati, xxiiij die
Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Thirst' visitabunt eandem ac
ecclesiam de Cukwald' cum capella de Silton',* ecclesiam de
Felicekirke, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kirkeby Knoll',
ecclesiam de Southotrington',, ecclesiam de Kiluyngton',
ecclesiam de Topclyff', vicariam eiusdem. cs.

[7th day (25 June) : Northallerton hospital.] Et pernocta-
bunt in hospitali de Aluerton'. Et in crastino visitabunt
dictum hospitale.f

[f. 484.] 12. ALLERTON ET ALLERTONSHIRE.

[Notice of visitation of this spirituality, directed to the
guardian of the same, closely identical with the Nottingham
notice, p. 257 above. " Jurisdiccionis," " jurisdiccione "
supply the place of " archidiaconatus/' " archidiaconatu."
Dated at York, 20 April, 1441.]

[Schedule of visitation at Northallerton (26 June)."]

Die Lune, xxvjto die inensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali
de Aluerton visitabunt eandem ac vicariam eiusdem, eccle-
siam de Osmunderley, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Leke,
ecclesiam de Couseby, ecclesiam de Crake, J ecclesiam. de
Otryngton',§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Siggeston',
ecclesiam de Rungeton', ecclesiam de Thornton' in strata, ||
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Birtby. cs.

Hospitale de Aluerton' non visitatum.

13. DE ARCHIDIACONATU CLYUELAND*.

[Continuation of Cleveland schedule.]

[8th day (27 June) : Hutton Rudby.~\ Die Martis,
xxvij0 die mensis supradicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Rudby
visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Ingleby de Neclyff',^[
ecclesiam de Ingleby Grenehow, ecclesiam de Kyldale,

* Over Silton in Birdforth wapentake. This chapel is not mentioned in
Bowet's schedule. T hirkleby, noted with its vicarage b}r Bowet, but omitted
from the present programme, was also originally a chapel of Coxwold.

f But see note at end of next day's visitation.

j Crayke, omitted from Bowet's schedule.

§ North Otterington, omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to St. James'
hospital, Northallerton.

|| Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to St. James' hospital, Northaller-
tou.

T Sic.

264 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

ecclesiam de Welbury, ecclesiam de Aton', ecclesiam de
Leuenton, ecclesiam de Cratborn', ecclesiam de Yarom.*

cs.

[9th day (28 June) : Stokesley.] Die Mercurij, xxviij0 die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Stokeslay visitabunt
eandem ac clerum et popnlum capelle de Appulton', Horneby
et Thorpeaw,f necnon ecclesiam de Kirkby, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Midelburgh', ecclesiam de Ormesby, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Skelton', ecclesiam de Lethum.J

Et pernoctabunt apud Gysburn'. cs.

[Wth day (29 June) : Visitation of Guisborough priory.']
Et in crastino visitabunt prioratum ibidem. cs.

[f. 484 d.] [l~Lth day (30 June) : Guisborough priory. ,]
Die Veneris, vltimo die eiusdem mensis, in ecclesia parochiali
de Gysburn' visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Staneton',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Marton', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Mersk', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Esyng-
ton', ecclesiam de Hildewell', ecclesiam de Loftehows,§
ecclesiam de Halneby,|| ecclesiam de Danby. cs.

[12th day (1 July): Whitby.] Die Sabbati, primo die
mensis Julij, in ecclesia parochiali de Whitby visitabunt
eandem cum capella de Fylyng et aliis capellis suis ac
ecclesiam de Lythe cum capellis, ecclesiam de Sneton',
ecclesiam de JTilyng'.lf Is.

day (2 July) : Visitation of Whitby abbey.] Et in
crastino visitabunt monasterium ibidem.

\\4ith day (3 July) : Brompton in Pickering Lythe.] Die
Lune, tercio die mensis Julij, in ecclesia parochiali de
Brompton'** visitabunt eandem ante prandium necnon eccle-
siam de HotonbusshelP pro vtraque parte, ecclesiam de
Wykeham, ecclesiam de Thorneton', ecclesiam de Leuesham.

cs.

* Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to Guisborough priory : no
vicarage ordained.

f Sic. See note ^ on p. 189 above.

J Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to Staindrop college. Vicarage
(1412) omitted.

§ Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

|| Hawnby. Omitted from Bowet's schedule. In Ryedale deanery and
Birdforth wapentake.

T Fylingdales. Omitted from Bowet's schedule. App. to Whitby abbey.
* Beginning of visitation of Ryedale deanery. Hawnby had been visited
already at Guisborough.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 265

[Visitation of Wykeham priory.] Et post prandium
visifcabunt domum monialram de Wikeham et pernoctabunt
ibidem. nil.

day (4 July) : Middleton by Pickering.] Die Martis,
iiijto die mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Midelton'
visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Lastyngham, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kyrkbymysperton', ecclesiam de
Normanby, ecclesiam de Eddeston', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Kyrkbymoresyde, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Staynegraue, ecclesiam de Synyngton'. cs.

Et pernoctabunt in prior atu de Malton'.

[16th day (5 July) : Malton.] Die Mercurij, vto die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Malton' visitabunt
eandem cum capellis ac ecclesiam de Helmeslay, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kirkdale, ecclesiam de Skalton',
ecclesiam de Oswaldkirk', ecclesiam de Gyllyng', ecclesiam
de Nonnyngton', ecclesiam de Barton', ecclesiam de
Houyngham, ecclesiam de Slyngesby, ecclesiam de Appilton',
vicariam eiusdem. cs.

Et pernoctabunt in prioratu de Kirkham.

[f. 479.] 14. ARCHIDIACONATUS ESTRIDD'.

[Notice for the visitation of the archdeaconry of East
Riding, following generally the form of the Nottingham
notice, p. 257 above, dated at York, 1 May, 1442.]

[Schedule detailing visitation.']

[f . 479 d.] [1st day (11 May, 1442) : Westow.] Reuerendi
viri magistri Willelm.us Felter, decretorum doctor, decanus,
et Johannes MarchalP, canonicus ecclesie cathedralis Ebor',
dicti reuerendissimi patris commissarij vt premittitur
deputati, die Veneris, videlicet xj° die mensis Maij, anno
Domini millesimo ccccTU°xlij°,in ecclesia parochiali de Wystow
visitabunt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Skirpenbek', ecclesiam de Scrayngham, ecclesiam de Kirkby
in Hundaldale, ecalesiam de Norton', ecclesiam de BordsalP,
ecclesiam de Kirkby in Grendalith', vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Berithorp', ecclesiam de Wharrom Percy,
vicariam eiusdem. cs.

266 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[2d day (12 May) : Wintringham.] Die Sabbati, xij die
mensis predict!, in ecclesia parochiali de Wyntryngham
visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Setryngton', ecclesiam de
Langton', ecclesiam de Shirburn', vicariain eiusdem, eccle-
sianTde Killyngton', vicariain eiusdem, ecclesiam de Thorpp'
basset, ecclesiam de Heslerton', ecclesiam de Collom, eccle-
siam de Yedyngham, vicariam eiusdem ac populum ecclesie
parochialis de Wvuerthorpp'.* procuracio cs.

[3d day (13 May) : Scarborough. .] Die dominica, xiij° die
eiusdem mensis,, in ecclesia parochiali de Scardeburgh'f
visitabnnt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Haknas, ecclesiam de Scalby, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Seiner,, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Gamelton',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Willerby, vicariam eiusdem.

cs.

[4th day (14 May) : Hunmanby.] Die Lune, xiiij0 die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Hundeinanby
visitabunt eandem cum capellis necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Folketon', vicariain eiusdem.

procuracio earundem cs.

[5th day (15 May) : Bridlington.] Die Martis, xv° die
dicti mensis, in ecclesia parochiali de Bridlyngton' visitabunt
eandem cum capellis ac ecclesiam de JFlaynburgh', ecclesiam
de Boynton', ecclesiam de Fyueley, vicariam de Newton',
vicariam de Burton' Flemyng', vicariam de Muston', vicariam
de Eaghton'.J cs.

[6th day (16 May) : Visitation of Bridlington priory.] Die
Mercurij, xvj die mensis predicti, in prioratu de Bridelyng-
ton' visitabunt eundem. procuracio iiij li.

[7th day (17 May) : Burton Agnes.] Die Jouis, xvij° die
mensis Maij, in ecclesia parochiali de Annasburton' visitabunt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem cum capella, ecclesiam de
Foxholes, ecclesiam de Thweng, que est diuisa, ecclesiam de
Carnaby, vicariam eiusdem.

Et periioctabunt in prioratu de Wartria. cs.

* Omitted from Bowet's schedule. Weaverthorpe was a peculiar of the
dean and chapter of York.

f Beginning of the visitation of Dickering deanery.
J Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[8th day (18 May) : Visitation of Warter priory.^ Die
Veneris, xviij0 die mensis predicti, in Wartria visitabunt
eundem.* procuracio iiij li.

Et pernoctabunt apud Ebor'.

[9th day (2 June) : Wilberfoss.] Die Sabbati, ij° die
mensis Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Wilbrefossef visitabunt
eandem ac ecclesiam de Sutton' super Derwent, ecclesiani
de Catton', ecclesiani de Foulsutton, ecclesiam de Ellerton',
ecclesiam de Aghton' cum capella. cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud.J

day (3 Jane) : Bainton.~\ Die dominica, iij° die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Bayiiton' visitabunt
eandem ac ecclesiam de Wart re, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiani
de North' Dalton', ecclesiam de Hugate. cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Watton'.

(4 June) : Watton.'] Die Lune, iiijto die eiusdem
mensis, in ecclesia parochiali de Watton' visitabunt eandem
necnon ecclesiam de Lokyngton', ecclesiam de Lund',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Killyngwik' [f. 480], eccle-
siam de Burne, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hoton'
Crauncevvik'. cs.

Et erunt in prandio in prioratu ibidem racione primi
aduentus, etc. Et pernoctabunt apud Louthorp'.

[12th day (5 June) : Lowthorpe.~\ Die Martis, vto die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Louthorp'§ visita-
bunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Rudstaiie, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Garton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiani de Naffre-
ton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Fosseton', vicariam
eiusdem. cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Hornese.

day (6 June) : Hornsea.] Die Mercurij, vjto die
Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Hornese || visitabunt eandem
cum capellis necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Barnes-
ton', ecclesiam de Skipse, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de

* The commissaries returned to York for Whitsunday (20 May), and began
the visitation again with Harthill deanery on Saturday after Trinity Sunday.

f Omitted from Bowet's schedule.

J &o.

§ The visitation of the remainder of Harthill deanery was postponed till the
return journey. On 5 June the visitation of Dickering deanery was concluded.

|| Beginning of visitation of the deanery of Holderness.

268 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Beford', ecclesiarn de Frothyngham, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Killyng, ecclesiam de Catwik', ecclesiam de
Autynwik', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Gouxhill'. cs.
Et pernoetabunt apud Humbleton'.

[14>th day (7 June) : Humbleton.'] Die Jouis, vij die
Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Humbleton' visitabunt eandem
cum capellis necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rosse,
ecclesiam de Garton', vicaram* eiusdem, ecclesiam de Skeke-
lyng', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Outhorne, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Esyngton', vicaram* eiusdem. cs.

Et pernoetabunt apud Patryngton'.

[15th day (8 June) : Patrington] Die Veneris, viij° die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Patryngton' visita-
bunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Halsham, ecclesiam de Welwik',
vicariam eiusdem, de juridiccione* prepositure Beuerlaci.

Et pernoetabunt apud Hedon'. Is.

[16th day (9 June) : Hedon.] Die Sabbati, ix° die Junij,
in capella sancti Augustini de Hedon'f visitabunt eandem
ac ecclesiam de Kilnese, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Withornse, vicariam eiusdem, eccllesiam* de Burstall',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wynestede, ecclesiam de
Otryngham, ecclesiam de Kayngham, vicaiiam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Paule, vicariam eiusdem. cs.

Et pernoetabunt apud Swyne.

day (10 June) : Swine.] Die domiiiica, x° die
mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali de Swyne visitabunt
eandem cum. capellis necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de
Routlie, capellam| de Sutton', ecolesiam de Dripole, ecclesiam
de Aldeburgh', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Sprotley,§
capellam de Coldon'. cs.

Et pernoetabunt in monasterio de Melsa.

\_lSth day (11 June) : Holy Trinity, Hull.] Die Lune,
xj° die dicti mensis Junij, in capella sancte Trinitatis de
Hull' || visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam de Hesill', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Cotyngham. cs.

Et pernoetabunt ibidem.

* Sic.

t Not included in Bowet's schedule. The mother church of Preston was a
peculiar, app. to th3 subdean of York.

J Called ecclesiam iti Bowet's schedule.

§ Omitted from Bawet's schedule.

|| Conclusion of visitation of deanery of Holderness and return to the
deanery of Har thill.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 269

[19th day (12 June) : North Ferriby.~\ Die Martis, xij°die
mensis predict!, in ecclesia parochiali de Feriby visitabimt
eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Elueley,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kowley ac populum de
Elughton' et Waldeby.* cs.

Et pernoctabunt ibidem.

[20th day (13 June) : St. Mary's, Beverley.~\ Die Mercurij,
xiij die mensis predicti, in ecclesia parochiali beate Marie
Beuerlacif visitabunt eandem necnon vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Lekynfeld', ecclesiam de Northburton',
ecclesiam de South' Daltoii', ecclesiam de Midelton',
ecclesiam de Scoreburgh' de jurisdiction e prepositure
[f. 480 d], ecclesiam de Scoreburgh' de jurisdiccione pre-
positurej predicte. prepositure, iiij li.

Et erunt in prandio ac pernoctabunt in manerio domini
ibidem.

[21st day (14 June) : St. Nicholas, Beverley.^ Die Jouis,
xiiij0 die Junij, in ecclesia parochiali sancti Nicholai
Beuerlaci vocata Holmekirk' visitabunt eandem ac ecclesiam
de Br a ndes burton', ecclesiam de Rise, ecclesiam de Leuen',
ecclesiam de Siglesthorne de prepositura, etc.

prepositure, pro procuracione cs.

Et erunt in prandio et cena vt supra.

[22d day (15 June) : Visitation of Beverley minster.'] Die
Veneris, xv die mensis predicti, in ecclesia collegiata beati
Johannis Beuerlacensis visitabunt eandem et pernoctabunt
ibidem. pro procuracione cs.

15. PREMUNICIO ECCLESIE COLLEGIATE BEUERLACENSIS.

[Certificate of the chapter of Beverley (10 June, 1442), of the
receipt and execution of notice of visitation on 15 June,
1442, ly William Feller (16 May, 1442).]

Venerabili viro magistro Willelmo Felter, decretorum
doctori, decano ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', reuerendissimi in
Christo patris et domini, domini Johannis, permissione diuina
tituli sancte Balbine presbiteri cardinalis, archiepiscopi Ebor'^

* Omitted from Bovvet's schedule. Elloughton was a peculiar, app. to the
prebendary of Wetwang iu York. Wauldby is in the parish,
f Visitation of the provostry of Beverley on 13 and 14 June.
J Sic.

270 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Anglie primatis et apostolice sedis legati, ad procedendum et
progrediendum in visitacione eiusdem reuerendissimi patris
alia^ per ipsum person aliter incepta, vnacum aliis collegis
vestris cum hac clausula, coniunctim et diuisim, commissario
specialiter deputato, capitulum ecclesie collegiate beati
Johannis Beuerlacensis obedienciam cum debita reuerencia
et horiore. Litteras vestras reuerendas nuper recepimus in
hec verba :

Willelmus Felter, decretoruni doctor, decanus ecclesie
cathedralis beati Petri Ebor', reuerendissimi in Christo
patris et domini, domini Johannis,, permissione diuina tituli
sancte Balbine presbiteri cardinalis, Ebor' archiepiscopi,
Ariglie primatis et apostolice sedis legati, ad vlterius
procedendum et progrediendum in visitacione prefati
reuerendissimi patris alias per ipsum personaliter incepta,
ipsamque visitacionem continuandam et perficendam* secun-
dum omnem vim, formam et effectum indulti apostolici
super hoc iam nuper transmissi, vna cum aliis collegis
nostris cum hac clausula, coniunctim et diuisim, commis-
sarius specialiter deputatus, dilectis nobis in Christo preposito
et capitulo ecclesie collegiate beati Johannis Beuerlacensis,
salutem in Domino. Quia intendimus per Dei graciam die
Veneris, videlicet xvmo die mensis Junij proxime future, in
vos auctoritate prefati reuerendissimi patris visitacionis
officium exercere, tenore presencium peremptorie vos citainus
et premunimus quatinus compareatis coram nobis seu aliis
collegis nostris in domo capitulari ecclesie collegiate predicte
dicto die Veneris tempestiue, nostra salubria monita,
correcciones et iniuncta debita et deuota reuerencia recep-
turi, et visitacionem nostram huiusrnodi humiliter subituri,
ex qua Altissimus fructum producat placitum, qui vobis
vtinam proficiat, sicut pie cupimus, ad salutem. Concanonicos
vero vestros absentes, necnon singulos officiarios, vicarios,
presbiteros cantariales, ministros et alios quoscumque, qui in
visitacione huiusmodi debeant et consueuerant interesse,
premuniri faciatis legitime et citari, quod dictis die et loco
compareant vna vobiscum et intersint visitacioni nostre
predicte, cum continuacione dierum, si necesse fuerit, tune
sequencium, litteras ordinum suorum et titulos quos se habere
pretendunt in officiis et beneficiis que obtinent in ecclesia
collegiata antedicta ostensuri, vlteriusque facturi et recepturi
quod iusticia suadebit. Vobis insuper tenore presencium
inhibemus ne, pendente huiusmodi visitacionis nostre negocio,

* Sic.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 271

quicquid quod in ipsius visitacionis preiudicium cede re valeat
attemptetis sen faciatis aliqualiter attemptari. Et nos de
omni eo quod feceritis in premissis vna cum nominibus
omnium et singulorum canonicorum tarn presencium quam
absencium, necnon et aliorum citatorum quorumcumque,
fideliter in scriptis redactis citra dictum diem Veneris
distincte et aperte certificetis per vestras litteras patentes
harum seriem continentes, vestro sigillo communi consignatas.
Data Ebor', xvj die mensis Maij, anno Domini millesimo
ccccmo quadragesimo secundo.

Quarum quidem litterarum vestrarum reuerendarum
predictarum auctoritate et mandate, nos in huiusmodi
visitacionis officio, auctoritate predicti reuerendissimi patris,
prefato die Veneris, xv° die instantis mensis Junij, in domo
nostra capitulari in nos exercende, iuxta formam et effectum
litterarum vestrarum predictarum cornparebimus. Omnesque
concanonicos nostros ac singulos officiarios, vicarios,
cantariarum capellanos, clericos et ministros, ac alios
quoscumque qui in visitacione huiusmodi debeant et
consueuerant interesse, debite premuniri fecimus legitime et
citari quod compareant coram vobis die et loco supradictis
vna nobiscum, et intersint visitacioni vestre predicte cum
continuacione dieruin, si necesse fuerit, tune sequencium,
vestra salubria monita, correcciones et iniuncta cum debita
et deuota reuerencia recepturi, humiliter subituri, ac litteras
ordinum et titulos beneficiorum suorum exhibituri et osten-
suri, facturique [f. 481] vlterius et recepturi quod iusticia
suadebit. Quorum citatorum nomiua in quadam separata
cedula presentibus annectenda conscribuntur. In cuius rei
testimonium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apposui-
mus. Data in domo nostra capitulari x"10 die prefati mensis
Junij, anno Domini millesimo ccccmo quadragesimo secundo.

[Acta visitacionis eiusdem.]*
[Process of the above visitation.^

Adueniente vero dicto die Veneris, videlicet quintodecimo
dicti mensis Junij, anno Domini supradicto, coram venerabili-
bus viris magistris Willelmo Eelter, decretorum doctore,
decano, et Johanxie Marchall', in vtroque iure bacallario,
canonico ecclesie cathedralis Ebor', prefati reuerendissimi
patris sub forma prescripta commissariis sufficienter et

* No marginal title in register.

272 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

legitime deputatis, in domo capitular! ecclesie collegiate
predicte pro tribunal! sedentibus, discretus vir magister
Thomas Mynsldp',* clericus capituli dicte ecclesie collegiate,
notarius publicus, personaliter comparens, prescriptum
certificatorium, sigillo communi dicti capituli in cera viridi
pendente sigillatum, vna cum quadam cedula pergameni
eidem annexa, omnium et singulorurn prepositi, canonicorum,
officiariorum, vicariorum, presbiterorum et clericorum ecclesie
collegiate predicte, qui dicte visitacionis negocio con sueuerant
aut debeant interesse, nomina continente, predictis dominis
commissariis iudicialiterf exhibuit; quo quidem certificatorio
de mandate dictornm dominorum commissariorum publice
ibidem perlecto, vocatisque omnibus et singulis ad eosdem
diem et locum pro actu visitacionis huiusmodicitatis legitime
et premunitis, et ipsis, videlicet magistris Willelmo Felter,
canonico ecclesie collegiate predicte et prebendario ad altare
sancti Petri in eadem , ac Roberto Hambald', precentore
dicte ecclesie, aliisque officiariis, personis, vicariis, capellanis
cantarialibus, clericis et ministris dicte ecclesie personaliter,
ac domino Roberto Rolleston',J preposito canonicoque ipsius
ecclesie et prebendario ad altare sancte Katerine in eadem,
magistris Willelmo Scrop', Willelmo Duffeld', Ricardo Tone,
et domino Johanne Bernyngham, canonicis dicte ecclesie et
prebendariis ad altaria sanctorum Michaelis et Stephani,
beate Marie et sancti Andree, per procuratores sufficienter
et legitime constitutes, necnon dominis Henrico Bowet et
Johanne Conge, canonicis ecclesie predicte et prebendariis
ad altaria sanctorum Martini et Jacobi in eadem, nullo modo
comparentibus, quos quidem dominos Henricum Bowet et
Johannem Conge, sic vt premittitur, citatos, preconizatos
diuciusque expectatos ac nullo modo, vt prefertur, com-
parentes, prefatus magister Willelmus Felter' pronunciauit
contumaces, pena contumaciarum suarum huiusmodi domino
et eius commissariis reseruata. Et tune incontinenti idem
magister Willelmus Felter multum notabiliter ibidem pro-
posuit verbum Dei, cuius thema fuit Christus purgauit

* Thomas Mynskyp alias Thomas Dryffeld, late of Beverley, notary,
appears in a list of persons delivered from the gaol of York Castle in 1445
(Cal. Pat., 141—6, p. 421). He was dean of the Christianity of Beverley in
1463 (Mem. Eipon, ii., 195). A person of this name, who died in 1484, was
common clerk of York, 3 Feb. ] 481-2. John Bernyugham (see note in
appendix) bequeathed a " tall piece of silver parcel gilt and chased with an eagle
on the cover " to master Thomas Menskep, clerk, of Beverley (Test. Ebor., ii.,
205-6). See also note on William Duffield in appendix.

f Sic : sedentibus omitted.

j For notes on Eolleston and the other canons see appendix.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

273

peccata* Subsequenter vero prefati prepositus, canonici,
officiarij, vicarij,, presbiteri et clerici, sic vt premittitur,
ibidem comparentes canonicam in hac parte prestiterunt
obedienciam, ac litteras ordinum et titulos beneficiorum
suorum exhibuerunt. Et hiis gestis declaratisqne nonnullis
articulis ibidem in huiusmodi visitacionibus declarari con-
suetis, super quibus dicti canonici, officiarij, vicarij,
presbiteri et clerici ibidem saltern personaliter comparentes
secrete et singillatim examinati, eorumque dicta et depo-
siciones in scrip tis redacta fuerunt, prout inferius patet.

Nomina prepositi et canonicorum.

[Schedule submitted by the chapter of Beverley. Names of
provost and canons.']

Dominus Eobertus Rolleston', prepositus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancte Katerine, comparuit per procura-
torem et prestitit obedienciam.

Magister Willelmus Felter, canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancti Petri, comparuit personaliter et
prestitit obedienciam.

Magister Willelmus Scrop', canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancti Michaelis, comparuit per pro-
curatorem et prestitit obedienciam.

Dominus Henricus Bowet, canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancti Martini, nullo modo.

Magister Willehnus Duffeld', canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancti Stephani, comparuit per procura-
torem et prestitit obedienciam.

Dominus Johannes Bernyngham, canonicus et preben-
darius prebende ad altare sancti Andree, comparuit per
procuratorem et prestitit obedienciam.

Dominus Johannes Counge, canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare sancti Jacobi, nullo modo.

Magister Ricardus Tone, canonicus et prebendarius
prebende ad altare beate Marie, comparuit per procuratorem
et prestitit obedienciam.

Nomina officiariorum.

[ The officers of the church.']

• Dominus Henricus Groue, sacrista, comparuit personaliter,
prestitit obedienciam, exhibuit litteras ordinum suorum et
titulum incumbencie.

* This appears to be a theme founded on Hebrews, i, 3.

274 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Magister Eobertus Hambald', precentor, comparait per-
sonaliter, prestitit obedienciam et exhibuit sufficienter.

Dominus Thomas Sprotley, cancellarius, comparuit per-
sonaliter, prestitit obedienciam et exhibuit snfficienter.

Nomina personarum.
[The parsons or clerks of the Berefel.']

Dominus Eicardus Freman, dominus Willelmus Shercroft,
dominus Thomas Hukenall', dominus Willelmus Holme,
dominus Eobertus Tymbreland', dominus Johannes Watir-
man', dominus Johannes Burton', comparuerunt personaliter,
ac prestiterunt, eorumque quilibet canonicam prestitit
obedienciam, necnon litteras ordinum et titulos beneficiorum
suorum exhibuerunt, etc.

Nomina vicariorum.
[The vicars choral.]

Dominus Willelmus Cawode, dominus Eobertus Bilton',
dominus Johannes York', dominus Johannes Dene, dominus
Johannes Mathewe, dominus Thomas In gram e, dominus
Thomas Knyght', dominus Hugo A luerton'', dominus Eobertus
Cauell', comparuerunt personaliter, et prestiterunt, ac eorum
quilibet prestitit canonicam obedienciam, et exhibuerunt vt
supra.

[f. 482 d.] Capellani cantariales.

[The chantry chaplains. ~\

Dominus Willelmus Sledmer', dominus Johannes HesylP,
dominus Willelmus Arlovvse, dominus Johannes Shercroft,
dominus Thomas Halytreholm', dominus Eicardus Smyth',
dominus Thomas Graue, dominus Johannes Eoderham,
dominus Johannes Halsseham, comparuerunt personaliter,
et prestiterunt, ac eorum quilibet prestitit canonicam
obedienciam, litterasque ordinum et titulos beneficiorum
suorum sufficienter exhibuerunt, etc.

Comperta ibidem in huiusmodi visit acione.
[Gomperta of the above visitation.]

In primis detectum est quod vicarius ecclesie beate Marie
et capellanus del chernyl?* non veniunt ad processiones in

* The charnel or chapel of St. Martin adjoining the minster.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 275

ecclesia collegiata predicta, licet de ordinacione ipsius ecclesie
ipsi vicarius et capellanus ac eoruni clerici pro tempore
existentes teneantur interesse huiusmodi processionibus
singulis diebus dominicis et principalibus festis, nisi legitime
impediantur.

Item ijdem vicarius et capellanus ministrant eorum
parochianis sua sacramenta et sacramentalia, suis habitibus
protunc relictis, quamuis huiusmodi sacramenta et sacra-
mentalia in suis habitibus rninistrarent.

Item deficiunt vna sera pro almoriolo in vestibulo dicte
ecclesie, in quo conseruatur pixis cum sacramento, ac vna
lucerna pro ministracione sacramenti^ que inueniri debeant
per canonicos residenciarios.

16. [VlSITACIO ARCHIDIACONATUS EsTRIDING5.]*

[23d day (16 June) : Bishop Burton.] Die Sabbati, xvj°
die mensis predicti in ecclesia parochiali de Bisshopburton'
visitabunt populum illius parochie ibidem ac ecclesiam de
Northcaue, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Santon', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Hothom, ecclesiam de Skerne, ecclesiam
de Howme, ecclesiam de Etton'. cs.

Et pernoctabimt apud Wighton'.

[24th day (17 June) : Everingham.] Die dominica, xvij°
die dicti mensis Junij, in ecclesia parochiali de Eueryngham
visitabunt eandem necnon ecclesiam de Gomondham, que est
diuisa, ecclesiam de Lonesburgh', ecclesiam de Burneham,
ecclesiam de Barneby,f ecclesiam de Holme in S., ecclesiam
de Worisell',t ecclesiam de Bubwith' et vicariam eiusdem.

cs.

Et pernoctabunt apud Ellerton.'

17. HOUEDEN' ET HOUEDENSHIK'.

[Visitation of the spirituality of How den.]

[1st day (? 18 June) : Howden.] Die Lune in ecclesia
collegiata de Houeden' visitabitj eandem, et pernoctabit
ibidem. cs.

* Title not in register,
t Sic.

J Apparently one of the commissaries proceeded tg Howden alone, assuming
that the days referred to are 18 and 19 June.

T 2

276 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[2d day (? 19 June) : Brantingham.~] Die Martis in
ecclesia de Brantyngham visitabit eandem ac ecclesias de
Welton' et Walkrynghain/ jurisdiccione de Houeden' pre-

dicta insimul visitata ibidem.

[f. 487.] 18. AECHIDIACONATUS
[Schedule of visitation of archdeaconry of Richmond (1442).]

[1st day : West Tanfield.~] Eeuerendissimus in Christo
pater et dominus, dominus J., miseracione diuina, etc., die
Sabbati in ecclesia parochiali de Tanfeld' visitabit eandem
ac ecclesiam de Thorneton' Wattelowys, ecclesiam de
Haukeswell', ecclesiam de Fynkall', ecclesiam de Kirtlyngton',
ecclesiam de Well', que est collegiata, ecclesiam de Wath'.

cs.

[2d day : Bedale.~] Die Lune in ecclesia parochiali de
Bedale visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de Pikall', vicariam
eiusdem,J ecclesiam de*Caterik', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Patrikbrompton', ecclesiam de Scurueton', ecclesiam de
Birnysshton*, vicariam eiusdem. cs.

[3d day : Richmond.] Die Martis in ecclesia parochiali
de Richmond' § visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de Kirkby
Fleteham, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Eseby, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Croft, ecclesiam de Smeton', hospitale
sancti Nicholai iuxta Richmond', ecclesiam de Cowton'
magna, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Grenton', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Marrik', vbi sunt moniales. cs.

[4<th day : Spennithorne.] Die Mercurij in ecclesia
parochiali de Spenythorne|| visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de
Wenselay, ecclesiam de Est Witton', vicariam eiusdem,
capellam de Westwitton', ecclesiam de Midelham, ecclesiam
de Thorneton' Stiward', ecclesiam de Couerham, vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Downome, ecclesiam de Ayskarth',
vicariam eiusdem. cs.

* Sic. Walkington is of course meant.

f This schedule is appended to no notice of visitation. The year, however,
is 1442. The programme begins abruptly with the visitation of Catterick
deanery. The day of the month is uncertain, probably 25 Aug.

| Omitted from Kempe's schedule in 1428.

§ Of the churches visited this day, Kirk by Fleetham and Grinton were in
Catterick, the rest in Kichmond deanery.

|| Visitation of Catterick deanery concluded this day,

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

day : West Gilling.] Die Jouis in ecclesia parochiali
de Gillyng'* visitabit eandein ac vicariaui eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Midelton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kirkby
Raueiiswath', ecclesiam de Dan by, ecclesiam de Aynderby,
ecclesiam de Langton' super Swale,, ecclesiam de Kirkby
super Wisk', ecclesiam de Melsamby. - cs.

[6th day : Barningham.] Die Yeneris in ecclesia paro-
chiali de Bernyngham visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de
Stirtford', vicariam eiusdem,t ecclesiam de Manfeld', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Rombaldkirk', ecclesiam de Bowes,
ecclesiam de Marsk/ ecclesiam de BrignalP, vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam de Rokeby, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de WiclifF.

cs.

Tune ad aliam. par tern archidiaconatus citra moras.J

[7th day (3 Sept.) : Ripley.] Item prefatus reuerendis-
sinius pater tercio die Septembris in ecclesia de Ripley
visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de Staveley, ecclesiam de
Copgraue, ecclesiam de Allerton', ecclesiam de Farneham,
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Cundale, ecclesiam de
Hunsyngore,§ vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Staneley.

cs.

[8th day (4 Sept.) : Groldsborough.] Item quarto die dicti
mensis Septembris prefatus reuerendissimus pater in ecclesia
parochiali de Goldesburgh' visitabit eandem ac ecclesiam de
Marton', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kirkby super
rnoram, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Vsburn' magna,
ecclesiam de Whixley, ecclesiam de Hamerton', ecclesiam de
Hamthwait,|| vicariam eiusdem. cs.

Omnes iste ecclesie sunt citra moras.

[9th day (5 Sept.) : Visitation of Ripon minster.] Item
quiiito die dicti mensis Septembris dictus reuerendissimus
pater visitabit ecclesiam suam collegiatam Ripon'.

* Visitation of Richmond deanery resumed. West Gilling was omitted from
the schedule of 1428.

f See note J+t on P- 205 above.

t The visitation of Richmond deanery apparently ceased on Friday, 31 Aug.
The archbishop now proceeded to visit the deanery of Boroughbridge and his
church of Ripou.

§ Omitted from the schedule of 1428. App. to the priory of St. John of
Jerusalem in England.

|| App. to St. Robert's, Knaresborough. This church was actually in the
archdeaconry of York and deanery of Ainsty, but this is the only visitation
schedule in which its name appears in any archdeaconry.

278 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[f. 487 d.] [10th day (15 Sept.) : Preston.] Item quinto-
decimo die dicti mensis Septeinbris idem reuerendissimus
pater, videlicet die Sabbati, in ecclesia parochiali de Preston'
in Amondernes* visitabit eandem ac vicariam eiusdem,
ecclesiam sancti Michaelis super Wire, vicariam eiusdem f
ecclesiam de Eibcliestre, ecclesiam de Chippyng', ecclesiam
de Kirkham, vicariam eiusdem. procuracio cs.

Et pernoctabit apud Garstang'.

[llth day (16 Sept.) : Cockersand alley.'] Die dominica
in prandio et in cena apud Cokersand' et pernoctabit ibidem.

[12th day (17 Sept.) : Lancaster.] Item die Lune in
ecclesia parochiali Lancastrie visitabit eandern ac vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Garstang', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam
de Cokerham, vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Pulton',
vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Lethum, ecclesiam de
Heseham.J procuracio cs.

[13th day (18 Sept.) : Kirkby Lonsdale.] Die Martis in
ecclesia parochiali de Kirkbylonesdale§ visitabit eandem
ac vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Sedbergh', que est
diuisa,|| ecclesiam de Dent,^[ ecclesiam de Whittyngton',
ecclesiam de Bentham, ecclesiam de Thorneton', ecclesiam
de Clapham,** vicariaintt eiusdem, ecclesiam de Tunstall',
vicariam eiusdem. procuracio cs.

[14sth day (19 Sept.) : KendaL] Die Mercurij in ecclesia
parochiali de Kirkby KendaleJ J visitabit eandem ac vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Wynandmer', ecclesiam de Bethum,
ecclesiam de Euersham, ecclesiam de Burton', ecclesiam de
Girsmer'. procuracio cs.

[f. 488.] [15th day (20 Sept.) : Warton.] Die Jouis in
ecclesia parochiali de Warton'§§ visitabit eandem ac

* Beginning of the visitation ultra moras ; deanery of Amounderness.

f Not meationed in the schedule of 1428. St. Michael's was app. to Battle-
field college, near Shrewsbury.

t Heysham, in Kendal deanery.

§ Beginning of the visitation of the deanery of Lonsdale.

|| The schedule of 1428 notes the vicarage, but not the medieties.

IT Actually a chapel of Sedbergh. Not in the 1428 schedule.
** Omitted from the 1428 schedule. App. to the archdeacon of Eichmond.
ft De cancelled.

Jt Beginning of visitation of the deanery of Kendal.

§§ The visitations of Kendal and Lonsdale deaneries were finished on this
day. Melling, Tatham and Claughton were in Lonsdale deanery.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

279

ecclesiam de Bolton',"* vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Kellet,f
ecclesiam de Halton',J ecclesiam de Mellyng', vicariam
eiusdem, ecclesiam de Tateham, ecclesiam de Claghton'.

procuracio cs.
Et pernoctabit in prioratu de Cartmell'.

[I6th day (21 Sept.) : Visitation of Cartmel priory, 17th day
(22 Sept.), Cartmel.'] Die Veneris visitabit prioratum ibidem §
et ibidem peruoctabit. Et in crastino visitabit ecclesiam
parochialem ibidem. Procuracio domini ibidem vna cum
ecclesiis de Dalton' et Vluerston' tantum xlviijs.

[liSth day (23 Sept.) : Visitation of Conishead priory. .] Et
pernoctabit in prioratu de Conyngeshed' . Et in crnstino
visitabit prioratum ibidem. nil.

Et pernoctabit in monasterio de Fournes.

[20th day (25 Sept.) : Dalton-in-Furness.] Die Lune in
ecclesia de Dalton' visitabit eandem ac vicariam eiusdem,
capellam de Haukeshed',|| ecclesiam de Penyngton', paro-
chianos ecclesie de Kirkby Irelith', que pertinet ad com-
munam ecclesie Ebor',^| ecclesiam de Vluerston', ecclesiam
de Vrcewyk', vicariam eiusdem, ecclesiam de Aldyngham.

cs.

[21st day (19 Oct.) : Dean.~\ Decimonono die mensis
Octobris in ecclesia parochiali de Deen** visitabit eandem ac
ecclesiam de Brigham, vicariam eiusdem,tf ecclesiam de
Lamplogh', ecclesiam de Wirkyngton', ecclesiam de
Arledon',JJ appropriatam archidiacono Bichmondie,§§ eccle-
siam de Haryngton', ecclesiam de Moresby, ecclesiam de
Dis ting ton'. procuracio cs.

[22d day (20 Oct.) : St. Bees priory. ,] Et pernoctabit in
prioratu sancte Bege, et ibidem in crastino expectabit.

* Bolton-le-Sands, not in the schedule of 1428. App. to the archdeacon of
Richmond.

f Not in the schedule of 1428. A chapel of Bolton-le-Sands> app. to the
archdeacon of Richmond.

J Omitted from the 1428 schedule.

§ Beginning of visitation of deanery of Furness. Sunday, 24 Sept. (19th
day) was evidently spent at Furness abbey.

|| Not mentioned in the 1428 schedule. App. to Furness abbey.
T Omitted from the 1428 schedule.
** Beginning of visitation of deanery of Coupland.

ft App. to Staindrop college, co. Durham. Not mentioned in 1428 schedule.
Arlecdon.
Not in the 1428 schedule.

28() VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

[23d day (21 Oct.) : Egremont.] Vicesimo primo die
dicti mensis in ecclesia parochiali de Egremond' visitabit
eandem ac ecclesiam de Bekirmett, ecclesiam de Drig',*
ecclesiam de Punsonby, ecclesiam de Irton', ecclesiam de
Hale, ecclesiam de Gosseford', ecclesiam de Clether',* eccle-
siam sancte Bege cum capellis. procuracio cs.

[24th day (22 Oct.) : Booth.'] Vicesimo secundo die
mensis predicti in ecclesia de BotylP visitabit eandem ac
ecclesiam de Mulcastre, ecclesiam de Whitbek', ecclesiam de
Corney, ecclesiam de Wabrethwait, ecclesiam de Whittyng-
ham, ecclesiam de Millum, vicariam eiusdem.

procuracio cs.

Monasteria que sunt visitanda per dominum infra
archidiaconatum Bicnmondie.

Prioratus de CartemelP et de Conyngeshed', domus
monialium de Monketon', de Seton' et de Marryk'.

Monasteria infra eundem archidiaconatum que procurabunt
dominum in esculentis et poculentis racione primi
aduentus sui.

Monasterium de Fontibus, monasterium de Jerouallis,
nionasterium de Fournes, ordinis Cisterciensis.

Monasterium de Couerham, monasterium de Egleston',
nionasterium sancte Agathe, monasterium de Cokersand',
ordinis Premonstratensis.

19. COMPOSICIO INTER DOMINUM ARCHIEPISCOPUM ET CAPITU-
LUM EBOR' SUPER MODO ET FORMA VISITACIONIS.f

[f . 504.] [Confirmation by the bishop of Norwich, papal com-
missary, of the composition between archbishop Melton and
the dean and chapter of York concerning the manner and
form of visitation (30 June — 2 July, 1328).]

In nomine Domini, Amen. Quam sit pre ceteris pax

* App. to Calder abbey ; omitted from the 1428 schedule.

t This document, save for a few trifling variations, is identical with the
composition entered in Reg. Melton, ff. 103 d— 105 d. In the margin of Reg.
Melton, f . 104, this marginal note has been written in a later hand : " Vide
priorem composicionem in registro Johannis Romanus (sic), fol. 79, pag. B., et
aliam recentiorem in registro Capituli inchoatam sic : Memorandum quod xxj°
die mensis Januarij anno Domini secundum cursum ecclesie Angiicane 1543,
etc., fol. 13, pag. B." The proper reference to Reg. Romeyn is f. 102 d: see Reg.
Romeyn (Surt. Soc.), i., 393 (no. 1116). The earlier composition, bearing date
21 Nov., 1290, is printed in Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii., 216—20. The
marginal title of the present document (Reg. Melton, f. 103 d) has capitulum
suum Ebw*.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 281

in terris votiuis studiis perquirenda, ipsius fructus vberes
satis doeent. Iras namque comprimit et licium discrimina
procul pellit, que pleruinque 11011 tantuin laborum et
sumptuum suiit prodige, set eciam liuoris dampnabilia
incentiue ; quam eciam Christus regressurus ad patrem
tarn qua in doiium gratissimum suis dedit fidelibus et reliquit.*
Ex hac sane sancta et salubri consideracione, anno Domini
millesitno cccmo vicesimo octauo, indiccione vndecinia, vltimo
die mensis Junij, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris
et domini, domini Johannis, diuina prouidencia pape xxijdl,
anno duodecimo, constituti coram nobis Willelmo, per-
missione diuina Norwicensi episcopo,t ad infrascripta vna
cum venerabili et discrete viro magistro Hugone de
Engolisma, archidiacono Cautuar',J se legitime excusante,
a sede apostolica delegate, magistri Johannes de Thoresby,§
venerabilis patris domini Willelmi, Dei gracia Ebor' archi-
episcopi, Anglie primatis, et Johannes de Burton', venera-
bilium virorum dominorum decani et capituli ecclesie Ebor'
procuratores, habentes potestatem specialem in forma
subscripta componendi, ostensis et exhibitis coram nobis
tarn litteris apostolicis originalibus quam litteris excusacionis
dicti naagistri Hugonis, verum tenorein dictarum litterarum

* St. John, xiv, 27.

t William Ayermmne or Airmyn, master of the rolls 1316 — 24, consecrated
bishop of Norwich at Paris 15 Sept., 1325, died 27 March, 1336. As his name
shews, he was a Yorkshireman. He had held Friday thorpe preb. in York, of
which he had coll., 13 Nov., 1319 (Reg. Melton, f. 73). On 23 Feb., 1315-6,
he had received a grant of Masham preb. from the Crown (Cat. Pat., 1313—7,
p. 398). This seems, however, to have been abortive (ibid., 1321 — 4, p. 137) ;
and it is doubtful whether he actually obtained Laughton preb., of which he
had a grant on 24 Oct., 1317, and again on 10 June, 1318 (ibid., 1317—21,
pp. 37, 155). In 1314 he had a grant of Buckden preb. in Lincoln: the
mandate to induct bears date 3 May, 1315 (Line. Epis. Eeg. Dalderby, Inst.,
ff. 296, 296 d). Le Neve (ii., 171, 210) states that he held Leighton Buzzard
preb. in 1319, and obtained Stoke preb. in the same church 8 March, 1324-5.
His other preferments included Kentish Town and Oxgate prebs. in St. Paul's
(ibid., ii., 403, 420), Wellington preb. in Hereford, 8 Aug., 1320 (ibid., i., 530),
Wellington preb. in Liohfield, 1325 (ibid., I, 636), Preston preb. in Salisbury,
11 June, 1317 (Jones, Fasti Eccl. Sar., p. 410), and probably Shipton preb. in
the same church, 8 Sept., 1323 (ibid., p. 417, where the name is given as
Aylmer), and the churches of Blis worth, Northants, to which he had a Crown
pres. 7 Oct., 1309 (Cat. Pat., 1307—13, p. 193), and Bishop Wearmouth,
Durham, 1317 (Jones, ut sup., p. 410). See also notice in D.N.B., s.v.
Ayerminne.

$ Hugh of Augouleme, archdeacon of Canterbury c. 1327 (Le Neve, i., 40),
had coll. of Eiccall preb. 4 July, 1324 (Reg. Melton, f. 82 d), in pursuance of
a papal provision of 15 March, 1323-4 (Cal. Papal Letters, ii., 237). On
5 Aug., 1324, he obtained Kentish Town preb. in St. Paul's (Le Neve, ii., 414).
He was also sacrist of Narbonne (see Cal. Pat. 1324 — 7, p. 17).

§ The future archbishop of York, for whose career at this period, see Fasti
Ebor., p. 451. He was Melton's receiver and one of his household chaplains.

282 VlSlTAtioN DOCUMENTS.

apostolicarum continentibus, ac eciam procuratoriis dictorum
procuratorum sigillis dominorum suorum predictorum con-
signatis, quarum et quorum tenores sequuntur in hec verba.

[Letters of excuse of Hugh of Angouleme, archdeacon of
Canterbury, mandatary of the apostolic see, to his fellow
mandatary, William, bp. of Norwich (22 June, 1328),
containing text of bull of John XXII appointing them on
commission of arbitration (8 March, 1327-8).]

Venerabili in Christo patri et domino,* Dei gracia Nor-
wicensi episcopo, ad infrascripta a sede apostolica specialiter
deputato, Hugo de Engolisma, archidiaconus Cantuar',
collega suus in eodem negocio, salutem, reuerenciam pariter
et honorem. Litteras apostolicas recepimus tenorem qui
sequitur continentes.f Johannes episcopus, seruus seruorum
Dei, venerabili fratri episcopo Norwicensi, et dilecto filio
Hugoni de Engolisma, archidiacono Cantuar', salutem et
apostolicam benediccionem. Quam sit gratum Deo, ecclesiis
vtile, ac clero et populo fructuosum, quod inter ecclesiarum
presules eorumque capitula sincera dileccio vigeat et pax
regnet ; quam sit eorum nociua discordia, ex vberibus
fructibus qui ex capitis et membrorum caritatiua compage
perueniunt, et malis quainplurimis que ex ipsorum scandalis
oriuntur euidencius demonstratur. Sane venerabilis fratris
nostri Willelmi archiepiscopi, et dilectoruni filiorum, decani
et capituli Ebor', insinuacione percepimus quod olini inter
eundem archiepiscopum ex parte vna, et dictos decanum et
capitulurn communiter et diuisim ex altera, super iure et
modo visitandi dictum capitulum, ac super exercicio iuris-
diccionis dictorum decani et capituli, et aliis diuersis articulis
communiter vel diuisim materia grauis discordie fuit exorta ;
quodque dicti archiepiscopus, decanus et capitulum, aduer-
tentes scandala grauia ac animarum et corpora^ diuersa
pericula, variaque incomoda que ex dissensionibus huiusmodi,
si procederentj inter eos poterant exoriri, ad obuiandum
huiusmodi scandalis et periculis, ac euitandum licium
sumptuosa dispendia, aliaque incomoda prouisis remediis
excludendum, desiderant per viam pacis et concordie ab
huiusmodi licibus discedere, et super sedanda inter eos
materia cuiusuis discordie, concordia interueniente, compo-

* M. (i.e., Eeg. Melton) has patri domino. The Christian name of the
bishop is omitted both here and in M.
f First word of M., f. 104.
$ Sic. M. has corporum*

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

sicionem facere Deo gratam, ad multarum aniinarum
profectum, vt creditur, et salutem, eiusdem ecclesie Ebor'
honorem et pacificum statum, ac vtriusque partis comodum
et quietem, dumtamen, in euentu* huiusmodi interuenientis
Deo propicio concordie inter eos, ea que super huiusmodi
disseiisionibus concordata fuerint inter ipsos confirmacionis
eiusdem sedis muni mine roborentur. Nos igitur eorum pium
in hac parte propositum plurimum in Deo commend antes,
illudque, quantum cuin Deo possimus, oportunis fauoribus
prosequi cupientes, discrecioni vestre, de qua plenain in
Domino fiduciam gerimus, per apostolica scripta committimus
et mandamus quatinus, si super premissis inter archiepis-
copum ac decanum et capitulum memoratos, fauentef Illo
qui concordiam facit in sublimibus suis, interuenerit com-
posicio Deo grata, Ebor' ecclesie vtilis, ac clero et populo
Ebor' ciuitatis et diocesis fructuosa, eandem composicionem
auctoritate apostolica confirmetis, contradictores per
censuram ecclesiasticam, appellacione postposita, com-
pescendo. Quod si non ambo hiis exequendis poterintj
interesse, alter vestrum ea nichilominus exequatur. Data
Auinion', viij Idus Marcij, pontificatus§ nostri anno xijmo.||
Cum itaque aduersa simus valitudine corporis impediti, adeo
quod execucioni premissorum intendere non valemus,, idem
vobis innotescimus per presentes, paternitati vestre reuerende
attencius supplicantes quatinus absenciam nostram propter
impotenciam, de qua preinittitur, excusatam habentes, facere
velitis que per suprascriptas litteras apostolicas committuntur,
nostra presencia minime expectata. In cuius rei testimonium
sigillum nostrum presentibus duximus apponendum. Data
in manerio nostro de Hakyngton' prope Cantuar'l xmo kal.
Julij, anno Domini millesimo cccmoxxviij°.

Procuratorium domini archiepiscopi.

[Proxy of the archbishop embodying text of composition
(10 June, 1328).]

Vniuersis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes*"*
peruenerint [f. 504 d.] Willelmus, permissione diuina

* The words dumtamen in eventu are underlined in M.
f M. hsLsfaciente.
% M. }uta potueritit.

§ In M. pontificates is followed by domini, underdotted for erasure.

|| The pontifical years of pope John XXII are dated from 5 Sept., 1316.

^1 Hackington or St. Stephen's, on the west side of Canterbury. The church
was appropriated to the archdeacon. It was here that in 1187 archbishop
Baldwin made his abortive attempt to found a great college of secular canons.

** M. has presetites littere, the second word being uuderdotted for erasure.

284 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

Ebor' archiepiscopus, Anglie primas, salutem in Eo qui est
omnium vera salus. Noueritis quod nuper nobis, archi-
episcopo predicto, decanum et capitulum ecclesie nostre Ebor'
ex debito officij pastoralis disponentibus visitare, super ipsa
visitacione, modo et forma eiusdem, et super exercicio iuris-
diccionis dictorum decani et capituli orta materia dissencionis,
demum mediantibus iurisperitis pacein affectantibus, habito
tractatu, et considerantibus dissensionum pericula, videbatur
concordandum fore, et prout infrascribitur componendum,
dumtameti infrascripta* auctoritate apostolica contigerit
confirmari., videlicet quod nos archiepiscopus predictus et
nostri successores decanum et capitulum predicte ecclesie,
cum eos visitare voluerimus, semel in quolibet quatriennio
visitemuSjf et in qualibet visitacione archiepiscopus qui pro
temporibus fuerit, idem per suas videlicet primas simplices
litteras paternaliter eis mandet. Quibus a decano et capitulo
vel, decano absente, a capitulo receptis, conuocent canonicos
et ceteros de capitulo ad diem certum spacium adminus
duorum mensium'l continentem. Quo die ingrediantur capi-
tulum archiepiscopus et alij qui voluerint, hora capituli
consueta, presentibus decano et canonicis ; et, proposito
verbo Dei ac sermone complete, remaneat archiepiscopus in
capitulo cum eisdem decano et canonicis et aliis ad subeunduni
dictam visitacionem citatis, et, si voluerit, idem archiepiscopus
cum tribus vel quatuor clericis et vno scriptore, non notario
publico, personis secularibus fidelibus et honestis, dictis
decano et canonicis non suspectis, ceteris vero omnibus de
capitulo non existentibus amotis et exclusis, lectoque certifi-
catorio, decanum et capitulum visitet isto modo. Eequirat
videlicet a decano et canonicis ac ceteris personis supra-
scriptis, primo in comuni, sine exaccione iuramenti et
iniunccione penali, an sint aliqua corrigenda in personis vel
rebus ; quod si fuerint aliqui, qui pro serenandis suis
conscienciis sibi aliqua super premissis dicere velint, tune
in capitulo audiantur. Et si archiepiscopus singillatim
inquirere voluerit, faciat tres vel quatuor clericos suos
predictos in presencia decani et capituli fideliter proniittere
quod nullam omnino fraudem vel maliciam scribendo vel
dictando committent, set quod dicta per canonicos et alios
citatps et non alia scribent. Et tune singillatim et secrete
inquirat sine iniunccione peiiali an velint aliqua dicere circa

* Dumtamen infrascripta is underlined in M.

t Marginal note in M. De quadriennio in quadriennium.

t Duorum mensium underlined in M., with marginal note Praemonitio

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 285

huiusmodi inquesita.* Et si aliqua velit quis dicere super
illis, tune audiatur, et quod dixerit in scrip tis plenius
redigatur. Quod si forsan aliqua dicta fuerint que vide-
buntur corrigenda, punienda, seu reformanda in personis seu
rebus, omnia et singula presentata seu dicta in ipsa
visitacione, que uon tendunt ad destitucionem canonicorum
de suis canonicatibus et prebendis et supra, eodein die
visitacionis vel proxime sequenti tradantur decano et capitulo
vel decano absente capitulo infra decem menses, cessante
impedimento legitimo, ad commonicionem et iussionem dicti
archiepiscopi corrigenda. Alioquin idem archiepiscopus,
Deum liabens pre oculis, ea de dictis traditis non correcta
extunc secundum qualitatem t'acti corrigat in capitulo et
reformet, requisite consilio capituli vel canonicorum quos in
ciuitate Ebor' tune presentes esse contigerit. Et si contingat
decanum tune personaliter presentem esse in ciuitate pre-
dicta, premuniatur idem decanus de aduentu archiepiscopi.
Si vero contingat dictumf decanum tune absentem esse a
ciuitate predicta, premuniatur senior can onicus residenciarius
quern tune presentem esse contigerit in ciuitate predicta de
aduentu archiepiscopi supradicti ; et predicti decanus et
capitulurn vel, ipso decano vt premittitur absente, capitulum
prefatum archiepiscopum predictum certificentcongrue de pre-
missisinfraquindecimdiesa tempore dictorum decem mensium
continue numerandos ;J et recipiet quilibet archiepiscopus
procuracionem centum solidorum§ de capitulo in prima
visitacione sua semel tantum, qua toto tempore suo, absque
alia procuracione recipienda a dicto capitulo, sit coiitentus.
Item videbatur vt supra fore consenciendum quod decanus et
capitulum habeant et exerceant absque impedimento visita-
cionem et iurisdiccionem in omnibus et singulis articulis in
quibus et quatenus visitacio et iurisdiccio eis hactenus de
consuetudine competebant. Et decanus Christian] tatis Ebor'
ac ceteri decani mandatis dictorum decani et capituli,
quatenus cousuetum est, pareant et iutendant.|| Hoc acto
expresse et attento, quod archiepiscopus non concedit, nee
intencioiiis sue est coucedere, predictis decano et capitulo,
nee est intencionis decani et capituli, adquirere aliquam
nouam jurisdiccionem, nee aliquod ius nouum in aliquibus
articulis non concernentibus visitacionem predictam per
contenta in composicione presenti ; [f . 505] nee est intencionis

* Sic. M. has inquisita.

f First word of M., f. 104 d.

J Numerand'. M. has numerandorum.

§ Marginal note in M. Procuracio 100s.

|| Marginal note in M. Nota de consnetudine in sulire (sic) articulis.

286 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

archiepiscopi jura aliqua dictorum decani et capituli ab eis
adimere aut auferre. Vnde nos Willelmus, archiepiscopus
Ebor', Anglie primas predictns, premissa attendentes, huius-
modi composicionem ineundam Deo gratam, Ebor' ecclesie
vtilem,ac clero et populo Ebor'*ciuitatisetdiocesis fructuosam
fore nortorie,f dilectum nobis in Christo magi strum Johannem
de Thoresby procuratorem nostrum ordinamus, facimus, et
constituimus per presentes, dantes et concedentes eidem
potestatem et speciale mandatum nomine nostro composi-
cionem et concordiam, vt suprascribitur et in forma predicta,
ineundi ac eciam componendi, necnon et petendi confirma-
cionem composicionis predicte in forma supradicta auctoritate
sacrosancte sedis apostolice supradicte, et confirmacionem
eiusdem audiendi et recipiendi, siue infra diocesim Norwicen'
vel alibi, siue extra earn, siue infra diocesim aut prouinciain
Ebor', seu extra, prout voluerint et consenserint procurator
noster ac procurator decani et capituli predictorum, ac
faciendi omnia alia et singula sine quibus premissa nequeunt
seu nequiuerint expediri, et que requiruntur necessaria vel
oportuna, eciam si mandatum exigant speciale, mandate et
potestate predictis prefato nostro procuratori, vt supra-
scribitur, concessis, vsque vndecimum diem men sis Julij
proxime futurum et non vlterius duraturis. Katum et
gratum habentes et habituri quicquid dictus procurator
noster in premissis, prout supradicuntur, duxerit faciendum.
In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus est
appensum. Acta et data apud Thorp' iuxta Ebor' quarto
Idus Junij anno Domini millesimo cccmoxxviij° et pontificatus
nostri xjmo.

PROCURATORIUM DECANI ET CAPITULI.

[Proxy of the dean and chapter, embodying the same text,
mutatis mutandis (2 June, 1328).]

Vniuersis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes
peruenerint, decanus et capitulum ecclesie beati Petri Ebor',
salutem in omnium Saluatore. Noueritis quod nuper, vene-
rabili in Christo patre Willelmo, Dei gracia Ebor' archi-
episcopo, Anglie primate, se disponente nos decanum et
capitulum ex pastoralis officij debito visitare, ac super ista
visitacione [etc., as in the archbishop's proxy, with the following

1. 8. For dictorum decani et capituli read nostre.

* Ebor' ecclesie M. : ecclesie underdotted for erasure.
f Sic. M. has notorie.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

287

11. 9,, 10. For habito tractatu read tractatu habito.

1. 10 dissensionum is written dissencionum.
11. 13 — 16. For quod nos .... visitemus read quod idem
archiepiscopus et successores sui, cum nos, decanum et
capitulum ecclesie prelibate, visitare voluerint, semel in
quolibet quadriennio visitent.

1. 18. For eis read nobis.

1. 18. For decano read nobis decano.

1. 19. For conuocent read conuocemus.

1. 24. For remaneat archiepiscopus read remaneat domi-
nus archiepiscopus.

I. 26. For idem archiepiscopus read idem, dominus archi-
episcopus.

1. 29. For canonicis read capitulo.

I. 32. For ac ceteris read et ceteris.*

11. 33—84. For the full text from primo in comuni down to
contenta in composicione presenti ; nee est intencionis archi-
episcopi is written primo in communi, etc., vt in procuratorio
domini archiepiscopi precedente vsque Nee est intencionis
dicti domini archiepiscopi. f

1. 86. adiinere is written adimire.

II. 86 — 88. For Vnde nos . . . gratam read Ynde nos,
decanus et capitulum ecclesie supradicte, attendentes com-
posicionem huiusmodi ineundam fore Deo gratam.

1. 90. Omit fore nortorie (sic).

1. 91. For Thoresby read Burton', clericum.

1. 94. For et in forma read in forma.

I. 95. For et petendi read petendi.

I. 96. For supradicta read suprascripta.

II. 101, 102. For decani . . . faciendi read domini archi-
episcopi supradicti, ac ad faciendum.

II. 102 — 104. For sine quibus . . . oportuna read que in
premissis et ea contingentibus necessaria fuerint uel eciam
oportuna, et sine quibus premissa nequeunt seu nequiuerint
expediri.

II. 104, 105. For mandato . . . procuratori read mandato
huiusmodi et po testate prefato procuratori nostro.

1. 106. For vsque read vsque in.
1. 107. Eatum begins f. 505 d.

* In the margin of Reg. Melton, f. 104, opposite this sentence (Eequirat
videlicet, etc.) is written Forma visitacionis.

f The text is rewritten in full in Reg. Melton, ff. 104 d, 105, f. 104 d
ending with the words destitucionem canonicorum. The text, however, from
predictam per contenta to gratam, Ebor' ecclesie, including the clause Nee est
intencionis, was omitted and written in at the bottom of f. 105.

288 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

1. 109. For supradicuntur read suprascribuntur.
1. 110. For nostrum read nostrum commune.
ll't HI— 113, For Acta et data, etc., read Data Ebor' ijdo
idus'junij, anno gracie millesimo ccc1110 vicesimo octauo.

[The sentence broken off with the words quorum ten ores
sequuntur in hec verba (/. 504) is now resumed.']

Nomine procuratorio coram nobis consenserunt, con-
cordarunt et composuerunt, ac composicionem fecerunt et
prout hie infrascribitur inierunt ;

COMPOSICIO.

Videlicet quod idem venerabilis pater dominus archi-
episcopus et sui successores, decanum et capitulum, ecclesie
predicte, cum eos visitare volueriut, semel in quolibet
quadriennio visitent, et in qualibet visitacione archiepiscopus
qui pro tempore fuerit [etc., as in the archbishop* s proxy, with
the following variations^ —

1. 25. For subeundum read subeundam.
1. 26. For idem archiepiscopus read idem dominus archi-
episcopus.

11. 34, 35. For vel rebus read vel in rebus.
1. 36. For velint read velit.
1. 44. inquesita, is written inquisita.*
1. 50. For et supra read vt supra.
11. 59, 60. For cinitate predicta read ciuitate prefata.
1. 63. For tune presentem read presentem.
1. 68. For recipiet read recipiat.
1. 72. Omit videbatur . . . consenciendum.
1. 77. For ac ceteri read et ceteri.
1. 79. For expresse read expresso.
1. 86. After auf erre the document continues as follows : —

Yoluerunt eciam et consenserunt procurators supradicti
nomine quo supra quod nos Willelmus, permissione diuina
Norwicensis episcopus, dictain composicionem infra nostram
Norwicensem diocesim auctoritate apostolica coiinrmernus,
et hoc instanter pecierunt cum effectu ; quam quidem com-
posicionem procuratorie consenserunt, et iterum cum instancia
petiuerunt per nos auctoritate apostolica nobis in hac parte
attributa confirmari infra nostram Norwicensem diocesim.
Vnde nos Willelmus, permissione diuina Norwiceiisis epis-

* Reg. Melton, f. 105, ends with the words Quod si Jorsan aliqua dicta,
fuerint, Videbuntur, the second word on f. 105 d, is written videbantur.

VISITATION DOCUMENTS. 289

copus supra scriptus, volens mandatum apostolicum supra-
dictum, vt tenemur, exequi reuerenter, visa et examinata
composicione et contentis in ilia deliberacione diligenti,
inuocata Spiritus sancti gracia, anno, induccione* et ponti-
ficatu predictis, secundo die niensis Julij, composicionem
predictam Deo gratam, [f. 506] vtilem ecclesie Ebor', ac
clero et populo ciuitatis et diocesis Ebor' fructuosam ex
causis iiotoriis reputantes, ea ad instantem peticionem de
spontaiieo consensu predictorum procuratorum in forma
suprascripta ipsam confirm ari petencium auctoritate apos-
tolica nobis in hac parte attributa confirmamus. Quo ad
alia vero non expressa in composicione predicta, de quibus
inter partes predictas 11011 est compositum iiec eciam con-
cordatum, nolumus nee intendimus alicui earmidem parcium
per coiifirmacionem predictam preiudicare quoquo modo.
Reseruantes nobis et dicto college nostro seu alteri nostrum
ad hoc potestatem habenti, quatenus iura permittunt, potes-
tatem auctoritate predicta confirmandi concordiam seu com-
posicionem, si quain inter partes predictas super non
expressis, de quibus supra fit mencio, vel eorum aliquo,
imposterum iniri contigerit, quam inuenerimus Deo gratam,
vtilem ecclesie predicte, ac fructuosam clero et populo
ciuitatis et diocesis Ebor' prescriptarum. Et est semper
intencio nostra quod omnia et singula contenta in com-
posicione et confirm acioiie predictis fUuit et suum sorciantur
effectum, non obstaiitibus reseruacioue predicta et depen-
dencia alioram. Qne omnia et singula suprascripta venerabili
in Chris to patri domino, Ebor' arcbiepiscopo, Anglie primati,
et decano et capitulo Ebor', ac omnibus aliis et singula*
quos premissa tangunt vel tangere poterunt in futuro,
significamus, insinuamus et innotescimus per presentes,
quas per iiifrascriptum notarium scribi et publicari, ac
sigilli nostri impressione mandauimus et fecimus comniuniri.
Acta et data annos indiccione, diebus, mensibus et pontificatu
predictis in manerio nostro de GaywocV prope Lenneamf
dicte nostre Norwicensis diocesis ; present! bus discretis viris
magistris Adam de Ayremyii' archidiacono Norif',J Johanne
de Fenton', iuris ciuilis professore, Philippo de Nassington',
Johanne de Thoutliorp, Gilberto de Yarwell7, et Willelmo
de Colingham, notario publico infrascripto, clericis et aliis
quaniplurimis testibus ad premissa vocatis et rogatis.

* Sic.

f Gaywood by Lynn. The village now forms the eastern suburb of King's
Lynn.

+ Archdeacon of Norfolk c. 1327—35 (Le Neve, ii., 483.)

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SUBSCRIPCIO NOTARIJ.

[Attestation of William Carleton. notary public, to the above.']

Et ego Willelmns de Carleton', clericus, Ebor' diocesis:
public us°auctoritate apostolica iiotarius, anno, induccione,*
diebus, mensibus, et pontificatu et loco predictis, vna cum
testibus omnibus suprascriptis preinissis, litterarum apostoli-
carumvero bulla plumbeaet filo can apis bullatarum, litter arum
eciam excusacionis magistri Hugonis de Engolisma, archidia-
coni Cantuar', sigillo suo signatarum, omni prorsus suspicione
carencium, prout prima facie apparebat, ac procuratorium*
prescriptorum sigillatorum, vt premittitur, in nulla sui parte
suspectorum ostencioni et exhibicioni, consensui,, composicioni,
peticioni, confirmacioni, reseruacioni, et sigilli dicti venera-
bilis patris appensioni, ac dum omnes predicte littere ac
procuratoria coram dicto venerabili patre legebaiitur, ac
omnibus aliis et singulis, vt supra scribitur, factis initis et
prolatis, presens interfui, ea omnia et singula sic fieri vidi,
audiui, et hec de mandate dicti venerabilis patris et ad
requisicionem procuratorum predictorum scripsi, et facta de
transumptis prescriptis, cum originalibus collacione diligent!
que inueni per omnia con cord are, signo meo et nomine con-
suetis signaui, rogatus in testimonium premissorum.

ALIA SUBSCRIPCIO NOTAEIJ.
[Similar attestation of William Colyngham, notary public.^

Et ego, Willelnms de Colyngham, clericns, Ebor' diocesis,
publicus auctoritate apostolica notarius, anno, induccione,"^
diebus, men sib us, pontificatu et loco predictis, vnacum
testibus et notario suprascriptis premissis, omnibus et singulis
modo quo premittitur, et dum agebantur, peractis presens
interfui ; eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi et audiui, et
de mandate dicti venerabilis patris ac ad requisicionem pro-
curatorum predictorum hie me subscripsi, et signum meum
consuetum in fidem pleniorem premissorum apposui.

APPENDIX.

NOTES ON CANONS OF YORK AND BEVERLEY AND OTHER

CLERKS WHOSE NAMES OCCUR IN CONNEXION WITH

BOWET'S AND KEMPE'S VISITATIONS.

RICHAED AENALL, i.e., Arnold, commissary-general of the court of York
in 1416, was sub-dean of York from 1409-10 to his death in 1441 (Le Neve, iii.,
129). He was auditor of the chapter in 1440 (see p. 241 above). He had coll. of
apreb. in St. Sepulchre's chapel, 17 April, 1414, being then LL.B. (Reg. Bowet,
i., f. 47 d). This he res. on his adm. to Barnby preb. in York minster, 24 Dec.,
1418 (ibid., f. 66 d), which he retained till some time before 1438, when, on
18 May, he had coll. of Langtoft (Le Neve, iii., 199), but he appears to have
res. Barnby preb. before this date to Peter Irford (see Reg. Kempe, f. 16d).
He is mentioned in 1416 as vicar of Gainford, co. Durham (Reg. Bowet, i.,
f. 57). Surtees, Hist. Durham (iii., 11), says that he was inst. in 1412 and res.
in 1418. On 28 May, 1429, he was iust. to Heversham, Westmorland, on the
pres. of the abbot' and convent of St. Mary's, York (MS. Harl. 6978,
p. 26 d). He had ratification of his estate in Barnby preb. and Heversham
on 27 Nov. following (Cal. Pat., 1429—36, p. 36): he res. this church by
17 March, 1434-5 (Harl. 6978, p. 30 d). He was uncle to John Arnall,
rector of St. Saviour's, York, who died in 1446 (Test. Ebor., ii., 115).

JOHN BEENYNGHAM,treasurerof York. There is a note on John Bernyngham
or Barnyngham in Test. Ebor., ii., 203, 204, in connection with his will, printed
ibid., 203 — 7. An indult granted to him in 1426-7 (17 March) describes him as
priest, of the diocese of Norwich. It seems probable therefore that he came
from one of the Barninghams in that diocese, and that this was Barningham in
Suffolk, near Thetford, appears likely from the mention of Freckenham, near
Mildenhall, which is in the same neighbourhood, among the churches benefiting
by his will. He apparently held this living and that of Limpsfield, Surrey, in
the course of his career, but there appears to be no means of dating his tenure
of either. He was installed in the prebend of Mapesbury in St. Paul's, 9 Jan.,
1424-5 (Le Neve, ii., 407), and had coll. of Wetwang preb. in York, 25 Oct.,
1426 (ibid., iii., 223 : Le Neve calls him Bermingham in both instances). He
had ratification of his estate in both prebends, 2 Feb., 1427-8 (Cal. Pat., 1422—9,
p. 458), an exchange of Wetwang for Shipton preb. in Salisbury with Robert
Rolleston in Dec., 1426, having apparently taken no effect (Cal. Pat., 1422—9,
p. 388). He res. Wetwang on obtaining the treasurership of York in 1432 (Le
Neve, iii., 161). He was inst. on 29 June, 1434, to Brompton in Pickering
Lythe (Reg. Kerape, f. 376 d). On 1 Feb., 1436-7, he succeeded William
Felterasdean of Wolverhampton (Cal. Pat., 1436—41, p. 32). He res. Bromp-
ton in Pickering Lythe about 8 Jan., 1447-8, and had coll. of Bolton Percy on
8 Feb., 1449-50, which he res. by 14 March, 1450-1 (Reg. Kempe, ff. 118 d, 119,
68, 72 d) . He succeeded Robert Rolleston as provost of Beverley, 10 Jan., ] 450-1
(Beverley Chapter Act Book, II., lxxxix.-xc.), holding the provostship with his
treasurership till his death on 23 May, 1457. On Felter's death in 1450-1,
he was elected dean of York by the chapter, but was ousted in favour of the
royal nominee, Richard Andrew. He had quitted his preb. in St. Paul's for

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Oxgate preb. 21 Nov., 1453 (Le Neve, ii., 421) : he held Oxgate till his death.
As treasurer he was largely responsible for the completion of the south-west
tower of York minster, on which his name is cut beneath one of the belfry
windows (York Fabric Rolls, p. 51). He acted as Kempe's vicar-general in
1441-2, and, from the terms of Felter's will (see p. 295), was evidently a friend
of Felter, Dobbes and Kexby. He was also an executor of the will of John
Castell, precentor of York, with whom he was a co-founder of St. William's
college in 1454-5 (Test. Hbor., iii., 155 ; Cal. Pat., 1452—61, p. 218), was a co-
executor with John Marchall of the will of John, lord le Scrope, in 1455 (Test.
Ebor., ii., 192), and was a legatee under the will of William Duffield. He and
Duffield had been appointed joint keepers of the temporalities of the vacant see
of Rochester in 1419 (Cal. Pat., 1436—41, p. 36), and it was probably on this
-occasion that he first came into connexion with Kempe, who was consecrated
bishop of Eochester in that year. His own will bears date 29 March, 1457, and
was proved on 28 May : for his legacy to John Marchall, see note on Marchall
below.

HENRY Bo WET, archdeacon of Richmond, the favoured kinsman, namesake
and one of the executors of archbishop Bowet, was born about 1385, as he
was in his twenty-seventh year in 1411. He had a papal disp. on account of
-his illegitimacy to proceed to holy orders and hold two compatible benefices,
which was extended on 26 Aug., 1411, to a disp. to hold any mutually com-
patible benefices (Cal. Papal Letters, vi., 291). He held at this time Moreton
parva preb. in Hereford, which he must have obtained in 1410 or 143 1 by the
res. (not recorded) of John Catryk. On 24 Sept., 1413, he had coll. of Strensall
preb. in York, which he quitted for Laughton preb. on 4 Jan., 1413-4 (Eeg.
Bowet, i., f. 48 d). He res. his preb. in Hereford by 23 May, 1414 (Hereford
Eeg. Mascall, f. 48), and had coll. of North Muskham preb. in Southwell on
7 July, 1414 (Eeg. Bowet, i., f. 52). On 20 Jan., 1415-6, he quitted this for the
second mediety of Oxton and Crophill in the same church, being at this time
clerk and in legibus scolaris, and on 11 Feb. following had coll. of the preb. of
St. Andrew's altar in Beverle}" (ibid., i., f. 55). He res. his preb. in Southwell
shortly afterwards, and on 7 Oct., 1416, res. his prebs.in York and Beverley, and
had coll. of South Cave preb. in York and the preb. of St. Martin's altar in
Beverley (ibid., i., f. 58). He was at this time rector of Wonston, Hants, but
exch. it on 16 Oct. with master Eichard Colhome for the mastership of
St. John's hospital, Eipon, which he res. by 4 Nov. following (ibid., i., f. 59).
As subdeacon, on 20 Oct. in the same year, he had coll. of the archdeaconry of
East Eiding (ibid.), which probably accounts for his res. of Wonston, an incom-
patible benefice, four days previously. Two years later, on 6 Sept., 1418, he was
promoted to the important post of archdeaconry of Eichmond, on the death of
Stephen le Scrope (Le Neve, iii., 140). He also was sacrist of St. Sepulchre's
chapel at this time, but res. this post on 27 Dec., 1422 (Eeg. Bowet, i., f. 74 d).
On 20 March, 1419-20, he had coll. of Thorpe preb. in Eipon (ibid., i., f. 70 d) ;
on 17 Sept., 1420, of Norwell Palacehall in Southwell (ibid., i., ff. 73 d, 74),
and on 18 Dec., 1420, of Masham preb. in York (ibid., i., f. 74), for which he
quitted South Cave preb. He continued to hold his archdeaconry and prebs. in
York, Beverley, Eipon and Southwell until 1442. He died about this time : see
note in Mem. Ripon, ii., 213, 214; but he appears to have res. his benefices
shortly before his death. His register as archdeacon of Eichmond has been
lost, but there is an abstract of it among the Hutton MSS. in the British
Museum (MS. Harl. 6978), and it was also used by Torre in preparing his MS.
lists of incumbents.

WILLIAM CAWOOD, canon residentiary of York in 1416, is the subject of
notes in Test. Ebor., i., 395, and Memorials of Eipon, ii., 212. The account, in
Mem. Ripon states that his earliest benefice was Whittington, Lanes., 8 March,
1376-7. On 12 Dec., 1380, he was pres. by the Crown to Beelsby, Lines., for
which he exch. a canonry in St. Sepulchre's chapel (Cal. Pat., 1377—81, p. 582).

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fte was inst. 31 Dec., 1381 (Lincoln Epis. Reg. Buckingham, i., f. 110 and d).
He exch. Beelsby for Warton, Lanes., 13 Sept., 1389 (ibid.t ii., f. 40 d), to
which he was pres. by the Crown, 21 Aug., 1389, his estate in the church being
ratified 26 Nov., 1389, and 8 Dec., 1390 (Cal. Pat., 1388— 92, pp. 108, 179, 355).
His estate in Thorpe preb. in Ripon was ratified 13 May, 1393 (Cal. Pat.,
1391—6, p. 263). His prebends in York were Thockrington (6 Sept., 1408),
Botevant (25 Aug., 1414) and Husthwaite (2 May, 1419 ; Le Neve, iii., 217,
176, 194). He was prominent in diocesan affairs, acting as Waldby's vicar-
general (Test. Ebor., iii., 314), and was one of the executors of Thomas Dalby,
archdeacon of Richmond, in 1400 (ibid., i., 264 : cf. iii.. 13, 20). He was also
active in promoting the fabric of the minster, as is shown in the account roll
of 1415-6 (York Fabric Rolls, p. 33), arid the portion of his will printed in
Test. Ebor. (i., 395) contains bequests of books to be sold and their price
devoted to the reredos of the high altar. On 10 Oct., 1410, he and others had
royal licence to found the chantry of St. Wilfrid at the altar of St. Thomas
the Martyr in Ripon minster (Cal. Pat., 1408 — 13, p. 260), and his name was
also remembered at the altar of St. James (Mem. Ripon, ii., 212). He died

9 March, 1419-20: the foundation of his chantry of St. Wilfrid in York
minster was dated 2 March in that year (Yorkshire Chantry Purveys, i., 23,24 :
cf. York Fabric Soils, p. 304).

JOHN CONGE, canon of Beverley. Little is known of Conge, whose chief
connexion seems to have been with Wiltshire, where his name is connected
with Edington (see Cal. Pat., 1441—6, pp. 217, 266). In 1420-1 he was
provost of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, and held North Newton preb. in Wilton,
when he had disp. (7 Jan.) to hold an incompatible benefice for seven years
with his provostship (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 224). He res. his preb. in
Beverley by 3 March, 1450-1 (Reg. Kernpe, f. 72).

ROBERT DOBBES, precentor of York. See Mem. Ripon, ii., 204-5 and note
in Test. Ebor., ii., 146. The note in Mem. Ripon contains a full account of
Dobbes, who was at the time of Kempe's diocesan visitation precentor and
official of the court of York, and doctor of canon law. He held no prebend in
York at this time : this was also the case with the three other dignitaries.
Dobbes obtained the precentorship 2 Oct., 1439, but exch. it for the valuable
living of Cottingham, to which he was pres. by the Crown on 12 June, 1447
(Cal. Pat., 1446—52, p. 56). The date of his inst. does not appear.

WILLIAM DUFFIELD, archdeacon of Cleveland. A full note on the benefices
of William Duffield, archdeacon of Colchester 1425—33, and of Cleveland 1434
to his death in 1452-3, is given with his will and inventory in Test. Ebor., iii.,
125 — 152. In addition to the information given there, it may be noted that in
1419 he and John Bernyugham were keepers of the temporalities of Rochester ;
and it was probably at this time that he first became one of Kempe's household
clerks. His appointment to the rectory of Copford, Essex (27 Oct., 1422), and to
the archdeaconry of Colchester in 1425, both took place during Kempe's tenure
of the see of London, and in a disp. granted to him on 8 June, 1426, to hold an
incompatible benefice with Copford, he is said to be chaplain of John, arch-
bishop of York (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 472). He was also keeper of the
temporalities of the see of Chichester in 1420, before Kempe's brief translation
from Rochester to that see in 1420-1 (Cal. Pat., 1416—22, p. 317). On

10 Sept., 1428, he was dispensed to hold an incompatible benefice for three years
with his archdeaconry of Colchester (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 544). As arch-
deacon of Cleveland, 13 Nov., 1434-5, he had disp. to visit his archdeaconry by
deputy for seven years, at the petition of the archbishop in addition to his own
(ibid., viii., 511). Under his disp. of 1428, having by this time res. Copford,
he obtained St. Ewe, Cornwall, to which he was pres. by the Crown, 15 Dec.,
1428 (Cal. Pat., 1422—9, p. 456) and iust. 9 Jan. following (Exeter Epis. Reg.
Lacy, ed. Randolph, i., 108). He res. this benefice by 14 March, 1436-7,
(Cal. Pat., 1436—41, p. 19), and obtained Clifton Campville, Staffs. He had

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previously bad his disp. extended for a period of ten years, and this, on 26 Sept.,
1438 was prolonged for his life (Cal. Papal Letters, ix., 10). This last disp.
mentions his archdeaconry of Cleveland, Clifton Campville, and his prebs. m
York Southwell, and Beverley, all of which he held at his death in 1452-3.
His York and Beverley prebs. were filled on 10 March, his Southwell preb.
on 30 March, 1453: his archdeaconry not till 18 August (Reg. W. Bothe,
ff. 28 d, 29, 30 d, 31). Thomas Mynskyp (see note on p. 272 above) was one of
his executors aud legatees, and John Bernyngham received a bequest of plate.
He left 40s. to the church of Clifton Campville, £4 to his prebendal church of
Wistow and the chapels of Cawood and Monk Fryston, and the church of
Brayton, various bequests to Beverley and Southwell, 66s. 8d. for his obit at
his college of Mertoii, Oxford, and £10 to the repair of the tower of Merton
college chapel.

BRIAN FAIKFAX, precentor of York in 1416, was a younger son of William
Fairfax, and brother of Thomas Fairfax of Walton, to whom he acted as
executor in 1394-5 (Test. Ebor., i., 204). John Fairfax, rector of Prescot,
Lanes., apparently a half-brother, who made his will on 7 June, 1393, bequeathed
to Brian his books of canon and civil law and £40 in silver, to be paid in the
four years after the testator's death for his maintenance while frequenting the
university (ibid., i., 187). He is called " master " and was LL.B. at his inst. to
Long Marston, 17 May, 1394 (Keg. Arundel, f. 47). In April, 1398, he
obtained two successive presentations from the Crown to livings in the gift of
St. Mary's abbey, York, then vacant, viz., to Foxholes on 18 April, for which
he exchanged Long Marston, being inst. on 26 April, and to East Gilling, for
which he exchanged Foxholes, on 28 April. He was inst. to Gilling on 9 May
following (Cal. Pat., 1396—9, pp. 325, 327 ; York Sed. Vac. reg., ff. 226 and d,
228 d). On 3 March, 1398-9, he had leave of absence from Gilling " causa
standi in scolis " (Eeg. Scrope, f. 47 d). He had coll. of the precentorship of
York on 12 April, 1410 (Reg. Bowet, i., f. 44 d), for which he exch. Gilling
(ibid., f. 150), but he had a papal disp., 21 Feb., 1411-2, to hold an incompatible
benefice with the precentorship for ten years ( Cal. Papal Letters, vi., 207). On

4 Feb., 1420, he had coll. of Lattgtoft preb. (Reg. Bowet, i., f. 70 and d). He
died in 1436, holding the precentorship till his death (Le Neve, iii., 155).

WILLIAM FELTEE, dean of York. See note in Test. Ebor., iii., 115. It is
clear from his will, printed ibid., 115—7, that he was a son of John Felter, who
was buried with his wife in St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, then a chapel of Bed-
minster, and that the family had something to do with Keynsham, Somerset,
between Bristol and Bath. He was ordained deacon on 19 Dec., 1416, in the
Greyfriars church at Gloucester by John, bishop " Tyburnensis " (Worcester
Epis. Reg. Peveril, f. 103 : cf. Polton, f. 15), having been inst. to St. Wer-
burgh's, Bristol, on the pres. of the abbot and convent of Keynsham,

5 Aug., 1416 (ibid., f. 76), and on 15 July, 1422, being then M.A. and
B.C.L., he had a papal dispensation to hold an incompatible benefice with
St. Werburgh's for ten years (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 213,247). He was
inst., being then doctor of decrees, to the church of Frittenden, Kent, on
16 May, 1425 (Lambeth Reg. Chichele, i., f. 155), which he res. by 8 Dec.,
1426 (Cal. Pat., 1422—9, p. 382). On 19 Nov., 1426, he had a grant from the
Crown of the deanery of Wolverhampton (ibid., p. 381). It is not known how
he became acquainted with archbishop Kempe, but he was a member of his

"household during the early years of his tenure of the see of York, and had coll.
from him of the preb. of St. Peter's altar in Beverley, 20 Feb., 1429-30 (Reg.
Kempe, f. 8 d), in which his estate was ratified, 24 May, 1430 (Cal. Pat.,
1429 -36, p. 36). He res. his church in Bristol by 12 Oct., 1430 (Worcester
Epis. Reg. Polton, f. 85 d). On 21 June, 1435, he had coll. of the arch-
deaconry of York (Reg. Kempe, f. 15), and on 10 Nov. following, he had an
iodult to visit his archdeaconry by deputy for seven years (Cal. Papal Letters,
viii., 531). On the promotion, however, of Robert Gilbert to the bishopric of

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London, Belter was elected to the vacant deanery of York, in which he was
confirmed 11 Dec., 1436 (Reg. Kempe, f . 390). He res. the deanery of Wolver-
hampton about this time (Cal. Pat., 1436 — 41, p. 32), holding the rectory of
Almondbury (see Reg. Kempe, f . 74 d) and his prebend at Beverley, together
with the deanery, till his death. His inst. to Almondbury is not recorded. On
2 Sept. , ] 436, he obtained an indult to receive or farm out the fruits of the
deanery during non-residence for three years (Cal. Papal Letters, viii., 536),

-in which his business in the archbishop's service is specially mentioned. He
obtained no prebend in York till 1441-2, when he had coll. of Apesthorpe on

_28 Feb. (Eeg. Kempe, f. 47). This probably marks the beginning of his more
or less permanent residence at York. He quitted Apesthorpe for Driffield
preb., 14 Jan., 1450-1 (ibid., f. 71), and shortly afterwards was appointed
vicar-general by Kempe, but died in April, 1451. His will, made on 6 April,
was proved on 10 April. John Bernyngham and John Kexby (see pp. 291, 296)
were executors; Bernyngham's legacy consisted of a pearl pair of beads,
St. Bernard on the Song of Songs, and 100s., while Kexby received £4.^ Felter
also left his copy of John of Legnano's commentary on the Clementine con-
stitutions to Robert Dobbes (see p. 293). He bequeathed £20 to Keynsham
abbey, Somerset, a vestment worth £20 to St. Mary Redcliffe, on condition that
prayers should be bidden publicly on Sundays for his soul and his father's, and
£10 to Merton College, Oxford. He had evidently graduated at Oxford, and
had obtained his degree as doctor of canon law as early as 1426. He also left
legacies of money to his churches of Almondbury and Pickering, Pocklington—
and Kilham, which were appropriated to the deanery, and to his former church
of St. Werburgh's, Bristol, with 100 marks to the poor of the deanery, Almond-
bury, and his altar at Beverley (Test. Ebor., ut sup.). His executors had
licence on 10 Nov., 1454, to found a chantry for his soul in honour of the Holy
Trinity, our Lady and St. Jerome (Cal. Pat., 1452—61, pp. 200-1). For this
chantry and its various dedications see York Fabric Soils, pp. 278, 287, and
cf. Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, p. 16 (chantry of the Cross, St. Anne and
St. Anthony).

THOMAS GRENEWODE, canon of York. See note on Test. Ebor., iii., 61,
where his will, dated 20 April, 1421, and proved 6 May, is printed with an
inventory. He was pres. by the Crown to Heysham, Lanes., 29 March, 1396
(Cal. Pat., 1391—6, p. 712), was inst. 5 April following (Harl. 6978, p. 17),
and had ratification of his estate therein, 3 Oct., 1397 (ibid., 1396—9, p. 199).
He also held the vicarage of Kendal, and was vicar-general of Henry Bowet,
archdeacon of Richmond, in 1415 (ibid., p. 31). On 20 Aug., 1415, he suc-
ceeded Thomas Wyot in his preb. in St. Sepulchre's chapel (Reg. Bowet, i.,
f. 53 d), which he exch. three days later for Bishop's Norton preb. in Lincoln
(ibid., f. 54). He obtained Thockrington preb., 1 March, 1415-6, quitted it for
Griudale preb., 14 Oct., 1416, and succeeded archdeacon Scrope in Kuares-
borough preb., 7 Sept., 1418, which he held, together with his preb. in Lincoln,
till his death on 2 May, 1421 (Le Neve, iii., 217, 191, 196 ; ii., 194). He was
buried in the south aisle of the quire of York minster.

THOMA.S HAXEY, canon residentiary of York in 1416. There is a memoir
of Haxey in York Fabric Rolls (pp. 203 — 6), which enumerates most of this
well-known clerk's preferments and gives many interesting facts with regard
to his life. See also Mem. Ripon, ii., 230. At this particular time he held
Barnby preb. in York, Tarvin preb. in Lichfield, Farndon preb. in Lincoln,
Baaminster secunda (not Bedminster, as stated in York Fabric Rolls) preb. in
Salisbury, Rampton preb. in Southwell, and the wardenship of the hospital and
chapel of Lazenby. In 1399 his incompatible benefices were Brington, Hunts
(not Northants, as usually stated), and Laxton, Notts (Cal. Pat., 1399—1401,
p. 27). He had been inst. to Laxton on 17 May, 1393 (Reg. Aruudel, f. 39 d),
and to Brington on 17 Dec., 1396 (Lincoln Reg. Buckingham, ii., f. 284). He
res. Laxton in 1407-8. He had a papal disp. to hold two incompatible benefices

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for three years as early as 30 Nov., 1390 (Gal, Papal Letters, iv.,395) : no subse-
quent extensions of this disp. appear to have survived. The account in
York Fabric Soils does not give the date of his admission to his Salisbury
preb of which he had a grant from the Crown, 27 March, 1391 (Jones, Fasti
Eccl Sar p. 359). At the time of his death he was treasurer of York and
rector of Briugton (see Lambeth Keg. Chichele, i., f. 254 d), and held prebends
in York, Beverley, Ripon and Southwell, as well as elsewhere.

JOHN KEXBT, chancellor of York. Nephew of William Kexby, precentor
of York, whose will is printed in Test. Ebor., iii., 43—7. He was S.T.M. and
rector of Oddington, Glouc., a church in the gift of the precentor of York, in
1427, when, on 3 Sept., he had a disp. to hold an incompatible benefice with his
church for life (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 520). He apparently obtained the
chancellorship in consequence : Le Neve (iii., 169) notes him as chancellor in
1427, but says wrongly that he died on 20 May, 1432. There is obviously a
mistake here, but Le Neve's list of chancellors at this point contains more than
one error. He appears to have died in 1452 : his successor at Oddington was
inst. on 9 June in that year, but the reason of Kexby's retirement is left blank
(Worcester Epis. Reg. Carpenter, i., f. 162).

JOHN MAECHALL, canon of York. Master John Marchall or Marshall, res.
Scruton by 30 Oct., 1434 (Harl. 6978, p. 30 d). He was rector of Scrutou in 1424,
when, on 11 April, he had letters conferring upon him the offi'-e of papal notary--
(Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 348). About 1430 he obtained a dispensation for five
years to hold an incompatible benefice with Scruton, under which he obtained
Wheldrake. He had coll. of the mastership of Sherburu hospital, Durham,
23 July, 1433 (Surtees, Hist. Durham, i., 139). On 19 Feb., 1433-4, he had
coll. of Wanstrow preb. in Wells (Harl. 6966, p. 45), being then LL.B.
On resigning Scruton, he was inst. to Heversham, Westmorland, on 17 March,
1434-5 (Harl. 6978, p. 30 d). On 4 Oct., 1435, he had a disp. to hold two
incompatible benefices for life (Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 522). He had rat'h'ca-
tion of his estate in Heversham, 8 March, 1435-6 (Cal. Pat., 1429—36, pp. 496,
506). Under archbishop Kenipe he became, as appears in the preceding docu-
~ments, a person of considerable importance. He was receiver to the archbishop
-and registrar of the court of York. His successive prebends in York were
Barnby, which he obtained 5 June, 1438, and Weighton, 28 March, 1443 (Le
Neve, iii., 171, 224). He was one of the founders of St. William's college
in 1454-5 (Cal. Pat., 1452— 61, p. 218) and of the Corpus Christi guild in York
in 1458 (ibid., p. 465). On 7 Feb., 1451-2, he had licence to found a chantry
in Padiham chapel, Lanes., for the good estate, etc., of archbishop Kempe, him-
self, their parents and benefactors (ibid., 1446 — 52, p. 524). He was a friend of
John Bernyngham, treasurer of York : they were both executors of John,
Hcourth lord Scrope of Masham.in 1455 (Test. Ebor., ii., 192, 193), and Bernyng-
ham in 1457 bequeathed a tall covered piece of plate, silver-gilt, fashioned like
a bell with a chaplet sculptured on the cover and another on the foot, and
weighing about 21 oz., to Marchall (ibid., ii., 203—7). In or about 1443
Robert Esyngwald, proctor of the court of York, left him a great piece of silver
with the inscription Vinum letifieat cor hominis on the cover (ibid., ii., 91,
where there is a note upon this clerk). He died before 3 March, 1461-2, when—
his successors had coll. of his prebs. of Weighton in York, and Normanton in
Southwell (Reg. W. Bothe, ff. 54 and d). He is known to have been master of
Sherburn hospital as late as 18 April, 1458 (Surtees, ut sup.}.

JOHN NOTYNGHAM, treasurer of York, king's clerk, was pres. by the
Crown, 29 Jan., 1382-3, to Rotherfield Peppard, Oxon., to which he was not
inst., and on 20 March following to the chapel of Appuldurford, I.W. (Cal. Pat.,
1381—5, pp. 224, 234). Later, in 1383 and in 1384, he is mentioned as clerk
of the treasury (ibid., pp. 317, 403). On 20 May, 1386, he was pres. to Thur-
caston, Leices., to which he was ii st. 13 March, 1386-7. He had a second

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. to the same church a year later, but res. it by 28 Sept., 1387 (ibid.,
1385—9, pp. 142, 206, 350; Lincoln Epis. Reg. Buckingham, ii., tf.205 d, 206 d).
He had custody of St. Margaret's hospital, Huntingdon, 13 June, 1386 (Cat.
Pat., 1385— 9, p. 157). His preferments in 1387 included grants of the deanery
of Tettenhall, Staffs., 18 July, and a can. and preb. in Wells, 27 Oct. (ibid.,
pp. 195, 234). On 27 April, 1388, he had a royal grant of the chancellorship of
Hereford (ibid.,]). 299), to which, after an inquiry had been held into the king's
right to present, he was adm. by bishop Gilbert on 22 Oct. (Hereford Reg.
Gilbert, ff. 63 d, 64 d). He had a grant of Gaia major preb. in Lichfield on
17 Sept., and of a preb. in St. George's, Windsor, on 19 Nov. of the same year
(Cal. Pat., 1385—9, pp. 362, 367). He exch. this last.with Thomas Haule for
Cottingham, Yorks., in Jan., 1388-9 (ibid., p. 538), and this exch. appears to
have been a general exch. of benefices, as Haule succeeded him in his Lichfield
preb., and at Hereford, and apparently at Tettenhall (Le Neve, i., 606, 492 ;
and cf. Cal. Pat., 1399—1401, p. 186, in all of which Haule or Hawley is
wrongly called Hanley). Notyngham was granted the deanery of the free
chapel of Hastings, 16 Oct., 1389, in exch. for his preb. of Combe septinia in
Wells (Cal. Pat., 1389—92, pp. 118, 125), and on 26 July, 1390, became chan-
cellor of the exchequer (ibid., p. 295). He had ratification of his estate in
Cottingham, St. Mary Magdalene's hospital, Ripon, and Codsall preb. in
Tettenhall, 22 March, 1391 (ibid., 1391—6, p. 52). In Aug., 1394, he obtained
Hollingtou preb. in Hastings, and about 17 Dec. following resigned the deanery
in exch. for Coleworth preb. in Chichester (ibid., pp. 478, 486, 517). He
obtained the archdeaconry of Nottingham in Aug., 1397 (Reg. Waldby, ff 9 d,
10 d). On 9 March, 1397-8, he had a grant of Frees or Pipe minor preb. in
Luhfield (ibid., 1396—9, p. 315), and shortly after vacated his Hastings preb.
(ibid., p. 381). He was re-appointed chancellor of the exchequer by Henry IV.,-
30 Sept., 1399 (ibid., 1399—1401, p. 5). On 18 May, 1402, being then arch-
deacon of Nottingham and rector of Cottingham, holding his prebs. in
Chichester, Lichfield, and Tettenbal], and the masterships of the hosp. at
Ripon and St. John's hosp., Nottingham, he obtained a papal collation arid
provision of canonries with expectation of prebends in York, Salisbury, Lincoln,
Eeverley, Ripon and Southwell, and of a dignity, parsonage, or office in any
one of these except York, in which he already held a dignity. With this he
had dispensation for ten years to hold such dignity with his archdeaconry and
rectory or with any incompatible benefice for which he might exch. both or
either, under the usual conditions (Cal. Papal Letters, v., 492-3). These
canonries appear to have remained purely expectative ; and meanwhile he
seems to have held his Chichester prebend in defiance of a judgment of papal
commissioners against him, from the consequences of which he was not finally
absolved until 1413 (ibid., vi., 415). Before this, however, he had exch. the
preb. in question for Chiswick preb. in St. Paul's, of which he had a grant on
20 Aug., 1406 (Cal Pat., 1405—8, p. 216). He obtained Grindale preb. in
York, 6 Oct., 1408 (Le Neve, iii., 191), but quitted it for Laugtoft preb. on
8 Sept., 1409 (Reg. Bowet, i., f. 43), and had ratification of his estate therein,
16 Feb., 1409-10 (Cal. Pat., 1408— 13, p. 163). On 7 Aug., 1415, he quitted
his archdeaconry for the treasurership of Y"ork (Reg. Bowet, i., f. 53 d), resign-
ing Langtoft preb. about the same time, and obtaining the preb. of St. Andrew's
altar in Beverley on 9 Oct., 1416 (ibid., i., f. 58 d). During the later years of
his tenure of the archdeaconry he appears to have exacted his dues without
performing visitations, under pretext of an indult to visit churches and receive
procurations by accumulation. This indult was revoked in consequence in
1413-4 (Cal. Papal Letters, vi., 410). He held the treasurership and Cottiug-
ham until his death, 20 Dec., 1418 (Le Neve, iii., 161 ; Reg. Bowet, i., f. 191).
He was one of the founders of a chantry in Well church in 1399 (Cal. Pat.,
1399—1401, p. 31). The will of Robert Lascy of Gatefortb, 12 Feb., 1426-7,
contains a bequest for a chaplain to celebrate in the chapel of Gateforth for the
soul of master John Notyngham (Test. Ebor., ii., 1).

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ROBERT ROLLESTON, provost of Beverley. Por a general account of
Robert Rolleston, see Beverley Chapter Act Book, il, pp. Ixxxvi— Ixxxix.
He appears to have been a native of Beverley, and to have entered the
service of Henry IV., who appointed him clerk of the works of the palace
of Westminster, etc., 13 March, 1407 (Cal. Pat., 1405—8, pp. 310, 311).
His first ecclesiastical preferment appears to have been Mablethorpe St.
Mary, Lines., in which his estate was ratified, 18 Dec., 1403 (ibid., p. 305).
His inst. does not seem to be recorded. On 15 Oct., 1409, as subdeacon and
engaged in the king's service, he had a disp. from proceeding to higher orders
on account of bis benefice for seven years (Cal. Papal Letters, vi., 123). Ou
14 Jan., 1410-11, he had coll. of Woodborough preb. in Southwell (Reg. Bo wet,
i., f. 46), and before 1412-13 res. Mablethorpe (Line. Epis. Reg. Repyngdon,
last., ff. 60 d— 62), having been inst., on the pres. of Ralph, earl of Westmor-
land, to Wyberton, Lines., on 13 June, 1412 (ibid., f. 56). He exch. Wyberton
for Charing, Kent, 28 March, 1413 (ibid., f. 63 d). Ou 10 June, 1418, he was
appointed keeper of the king's wardrobe (Cal. Pat.. 1416 — 22, p. 150), and was
pres. by the Crown to Warton, Lanes., on 2 Sept., 1420, and again on 9 July,
1421 (ibid., pp. 299, 374). He was inst. to Warton on 30 July, 1421 (Harl.
6978, p. 22), on 20 May of which year he had a grant of the mastership of the
" of St. Katherine by the Tower (Cal. Pat., 1416—22, p. 341). On

4 April, 1422, he hal col), of Shipton preb. in Salisbury (Jones, Fasti Eccl. Sar.,
p. 417). He was re-appointed keeper of the wardrobe to Henry VI., 1 Oct.,
1422 (Cal. Pat., 1416—22, pp. 3, 105), and on 19 Nov. following obtained Port-
pool preb. in St. Paul's (Le Neve, ii., 428). On 16 July, 1425, he received a
grant of the preb. of St. Katberine's altar in Beverley, void by the death of
Thomas Haxey (Cal. Pat., 1416—22, p. 224). It was not long after this that
he obtained the archdeaconry of Durham, but whether this was in July, 1425,
when Robert Gilbert may have vacated it by accepting the treasurership of
York, or in Sept., 1426, when Gilbert certainly did vacate it on obtaining the
deanery of York, is uncertain— probably at the earlier date. In Dec., 1426, he
meditated an exchange of his preb. in Salisbury with John Bernyngham for
Wetwangpreb. in York (Cal. Pat., 1422—9, p. 388). This was not effected;
he res. his prebs. in St. Paul's and Southwell, however, about this time, and
res. his preb. in Salisbury by 1 April, 1428. This general resignation was
probably due, in the first instance, to his preferment to the archdeaconry
which he had certainly obtained before 1427-8 (see Cal. Papal Letters, vii., 44,
45), and, in the second, t> his accession to the provostship of Beverley on
7 Dec., 1427 (Beverley Chapter Act Book, utsup.). He obtained, on 4 Oct.,
1431, a disp. to hold the incompatible benefices of Warton and the archdeaconry
of Durham, or other two, for ten years, in prolongation of a previous disp. in
similar terms granted by pope John XXIII., while Rolleston was rector of Mable-
thorpe. As the earlier disp. must have been granted before 1412-3, Rolleston
must have obtained his archdeaconry after its lapse; another disp. had been
issued to him on 21 Sept., 1431, which mentions his provostry and preb. in
Beverley in addition to his other benefices. As one disp. does not seem to
cancel the other, the two together probably covered a period of twenty years,
beginning retrospectively about 1422 or 1423 (Cal. Papal Letters, viii., 340,
343). He is described in these as a continual member of the king's household-
and of a great noble race. The disps. were extended for life on 28 Jan., 1436-7,
and on 10 Oct., 1437, tlii* last disp. was extended to include three incompatible
benefices (ibid., 594, 659—60). On 17 March, 1435-6, he had a grant of Carltou
Kyme preb. iti Lincoln (Cal. Pat., 1429—36, p. 511), and on 24 Nov., 1436, had
coll. of Driflield preb. in York (Le Neve, iii., 183). Under his latest disp. he
appears to have obtained the church of Cottesmoie, Rutland, which he exch.
for Framlingham and the chapel of Saxtead, Suffolk, 30 Aug., 1438 (Line. Epis.
Reg. Alnwick, f. 143 d). He res. his keepership of the wardrobe by 1444 (Cal.
Pat., 1441—6, p. 311 ; cf. ibid., 1446—52, p. 4). He died 12 Jan., 1450-1
(Beverley Chapter Act Boolt, ut swp.), still holding his provostry and rectory,

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and probably his archdeaconry, in which he was succeeded by William
Scrope (see below). lu 1440 (14 May) he had received an indult to visit his
archdeaconry by deputy for life (Cal. Papal Letters, ix., 110). He was one of
the executors of the will of queen Katherine, Henry V.'s widow, appointed in
the king's place in 1437 (Cal. Pat., 1436—41, p. 47) and on 30 Oct., 1444, had
licence to found the chantry of St. John of Beverley and St. Katherine at his
prebendal altar of St. Katherine in the south-east transept of Beverley minster
(ibid,, 1441—6, p. 322).

STEPHEN LE SCKOPE, archdeacon of Richmond, was a younger son of
Stephen, second lord Scrope of Mashain, aud nephew of archbishop Scrope.
See notices in Test. Ebor., i., 385 ; iii., 33 ; Mem. Ripon, ii., 188-9. His will
(Test. Ebor., i., 385—9) shews that he was a member of Gouville hall (the hall
of the Annunciation of the B.V.M.) in Cambridge university, of which he was
chancellor in 1416. During his uncle's tenure of the see of Lichfield he
received preferment in that cathedral church, obtaining Offley preb. on
21 March, 1395-6, and Colwich preb. on 21 Nov., 1397 (Le Neve, i., 615, 591).
This last he exch. for Dernford preb. on 15 June, 1400, which he did not hold
for long (ibid., i., 596). Meanwhile, after the translation of his uncle to York,
he had coll. of Langtoft preb. on 28 Dec., 1399 (Reg. Scrope, f. 2). Soon after
this he had coll. of Knaresborough preb. on a date unspecified (ibid.}, but,
according to Le Neve (iii., 196), held it from 3 to 5 Feb., 1399-1400. He con-
tinued to hold Langtoft, which he quitted for Driffield preb. on 4 March,
1400-1 (Reg. Scrope, f . 3 d). On 19 May, 1400, he had coll. of the archdeaconry
of Richmond, but was ousted temporarity by the papal provisor, Nicholas
liubwith. He had coll. of Studley preb. in Ripon on 18 Oct., 1401, and
obtained the archdeaconry of Richmond eventually on 18 March, 1401-2 (ibid.,
ff. 3, 4 d, 9 d). He held his archdeaconry until his death in 1418, when he
also held Knaresborough preb., for which he had exch. his preb. in Ripon on

14 Jan., 1408-9 (Le Neve, iii., 196). His will, dated 24 Aug., 1418, was proved
on 7 Sept. following. It contains valuable bequests to the new reredos of the
high altar in York minster, his prebendal churches of St. Mary Bishophill and
Knaresborough, the churches of Bolton-le-Sands, Clapham, Easingwold and
Thornton Steward, which he held as archdeacon, and the churches of Hornby,
Yorks., and Laugharue> Carmarthenshire. Thomas Haxey was one of his
legatees. Among his executors was William Alnwick, the future bishop of
Norwich arid Lincoln, to whom he left, with pieces of plate, several books of

-«anon law with reversion to the library of York minster.

WILLIAM SCKOPE, canon of Beverley. See Mem. Ripon, ii., 195; Test.

Ebor., ii., 188 n, and full note on his benefices in Visitations of Religious

Houses (Line. Record Soc.), i., 188. In this last note it is suggested that he

may have obtained the archdeaconry of Durham by Rolleston's res. in 1448,

which is indicated by a significant change of benefices about that time ; but, as

shewn in the note above, it is possible that Rolleston held this archdeaconry at

his death in 1450-1, and Scrope is not mentioned as archdeacon, so far as has

_been yet noted, before 1452. He was a witness to the will of his uncle

""Stephen le Scrope, archdeacon of Richmond, in 1418 (Test. Ebor., L, 385 — 9),

-and an executor of his brother, John, lord Scrope, in 1453-4 (ibid., ii., 134).

He was also an executor of the will of Sir Hugh Wilughby of Wollatou, Notts.,

15 Sept., 1443, proved 15 Dec., 1448 (ibid., ii., 134).

RICHAKD TONE, archdeacon of East Riding. Richard Tone, Tune, or
Toyne, and his brother Robert, who was also beneficed in the diocese of York,
were sons of John Tone, tanner, of Beverley (Test. Ebor., iii., 195). Richard
Tone, doctor of decrees, had coll. from bishop Spoffbrd (also a Yorkshiremau
and abbot of St. Mary's, York) of the first portion in the church of Bromyard,
Herefordshire, 5 Oct., 1426 (Her. Epis. Reg. Spofford, i., f. 97 d). His estate
in this benefice was ratified 10 July, 1427 (Cal. Pat., 1422—9, p. 388). He

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also was rector of Cheain, Surrey, and held the preb. of Congreve in Penkridge
in 1428, when, ou 22 Nov., he received a disp. to hold an incompatible benefice
with his church for seven years (Cal. Papal Letters, viii., 90). He res. his
portion in Bromvard early in 1428-9 (Reg. Spofford, ii., f. 123), but continued
to hold his preb. in Penkridge till 1432 (Harl. 6966, p. 43). Under his
disp., he obtained the additional church of Beddington, Surrey (Cal. Papal
Letters, viii., 526). He res. cither Cheam or Beddington for St. Crux, York,
to which he was inst. 12 Feb., 1429-30 (Beg. Kempe, f. 8 d). As rector of
St. Crux (wrongly described as in London) he had an iudult for a portable
altar, 17 June, 1430 (Cal. Papal Letters, viii., 190). He exch. St. Crux for
Lafford preb. in Lincoln, 10 June, 1432 (Reg. Kempe, f. 10; Line. Epis. Reg.
Gray, ff . 83, 83d). On 12 July, 1434, he was inst. to Hambleden, Bucks.
(Line. Epis. Reg. Gray, f. 50 d), and, while holding this church with that cf
Aldington, Kent, applied for a dispensation to hold two incompatible benefices
for life. Before the disp. was granted, however, he had res. Hambleden, early
in 1433 (ibid., f. 53), and, on 20 March, had coll. of the archdeaconry of East
Riding (Reg. Kempe, f. 15). On 13 Oct., 1435, the disp., which ' had not

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On 8 June in the same year, he had an indult as rector of Aldington and chap-
lain of archbishop Kempe, to take or rent the fruits of his benefices for ten
years while non-resident (ibid., viii., 538). He res. his preb. in Lincoln in
1434, before his admission to the archdeaconry (Le Neve, ii., 101). On 7 Nov.,
1441, he had coll. of Thockrington preb. in York (Reg. Kempe, f. 47 d), and in
March, 1441-2, of the preb. of St. Mary's altar in Beverley (ibid., f. 48). On
18 Oct., 1443, he had coll. of the church of Nunburuholme, which he res. by
14 March, 1443-4 (ibid., ff. 50, 196 d), having been inst. to Irnham, Lines., on
9 March (Lincoln Reg. Alnwick, f. 94). He was inst. to St. Saviour's, York,
1 Nov., 1440 (ibid., f. 188). Tn 1447 he res. North Leverton preb. in South-
well, and quitted Thockrington preb. by 31 Jan., 1448-9 (Le Neve, iii., 42G,
217). He now seems to have held North Newbald preb. and the church of
Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts, of which he had coll. on 9 January (Reg. Kempe,
f. 65 d), but res. both on receiving coll. of Bolton Percy, 13 March, 1450-1
(ibid., f. 72 d). He retained Bolton Percy, his archdeaconry, and his preb. in
Beverley until his death in 1403-4, having res. Irnham in May, 1457 (Lincoln
Reg. Chedworth, f. 11 d). His successor at Bolton Percy had coll. 10 March,
and his successors in his archdeaconry and at Beverley on 13 March of that
year (Reg. W. Bothe, ff. 25 d, 26, 58, 5"8 d). He acted as vicar-general under_
archbishops Kempe and William Bothe, and was frequently employed as a com-
missary in diocesan business.

WILLIAM WALTHAM, canon residentiary of York in 1416. See notes in
Test. Ubor., iii., 55, 56, and York Fabric Rolls, p. 220, where his relationship_
to the family of Ravenser and to John Waltharn, bishop of Salisbury, is noted.
His family came from Waltham, Lines., near Grimsby. William Waltham,
archdeacon of the East Riding in 1385-6, and preb. of Ampleforth 1386—9 (Le
Neve, iii., 142, 169), seems to have been an uncle. About 1390 the younger
William had prov. of Twyford preb. in St. Paul's, but exch. this, before
obtaining possession, in 1390-1, for Compton preb. in Wells. At this time he
held expectative provisions of canonries in Wells and Salisbury, and of a dignity,
parsonage or office in Salisbury, had been provided to Tisbury, Wilts., and 'a
canonry and preb. in York on the next vacancy, and was engaged in litigation
about the church of Orpington, Kent (Cal. Papal Letters, iv.,~383, 384). His
estate in his Wells preb. was ratified 27 May, 1391 (Cal. Pat., 1388—92, p. 415).
His inst. to Tisbury does not seem to be recorded. He obtained Kingsteignton
preb. in Salisbury earlier in the same month (Jones, Fasti Eccl. Sar., p. 423),
and Dunnington preb. in York on 3 April, 1393 (Le Neve, iii., 181), while he

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succeeded in obtaining provision of Orpington. He had further provision, 20
July, 1393, of a preb. in St. Paul's (Cat. Papal Letters, iv., 468). This was
Kentish Town, of which he obtained possession on 30 June, 1395 (Le Neve, ii.,
404), and bad ratification on 5 Feb., 1395-6 (Cal. Pat., 1391—6, p. 658). On
3 Nov., 1393, he was inst. to Algarkirk, Lines., in succession to John Ravenser-
(Lincoln Reg. Buckingham, ii., f. 83). In 1395 he exch. his Wells preb. for
Chalke preb. in Wilton (Cal. Papal Letters, iv., 505), in which his estate was
ratified on 1 May (Cat. Pat., 131)1—6, ]>. 564), the ratification being followed
by a formal grant of the preb. on 10 Oct. (Hid., p. 637). At the close of July,
1397, he received an indult to receive the fruits of his benefices while non-
resident (Cal. Papal Letter*, v., 23). He had ratification of his estate in
Dunnington preb., 26 Sept., 1397 (Cal. Pat., 1396-9, p. 202), having received
a week earlier, ou 19 Sept., papal provision of the church of Somersham. Hunts
(Cal. Papal Letters, v., 79; of. Cal. Pat., 1396—9, p. 262). His benefices at
this time, not counting Somersham, to which he does not appear to have been
inst., Avere valued at 480 marks. On 8 Nov., 1397, he had a grant of the arch-
deaconry of Exeter (Cal. Pat., 1396—9, p. 279), which, if he obtained, he held
for only a short time (see Le Neve, i., 394). The Exeter registers record no
collation. He exch. his Salisbury preb. in 1397-8 for St. Martin's altar preb.
in Beverley, to which he was pres. by the Crown on 17 March (Cal. Pat.,
1396—9, p. 324), and had coll. on 22 March of Leighton manor preb. in
Lincoln, for which he exch. his preb. in St. Paul's (Lincoln Epis. Reg. Bucking-
ham, Inst., ii., ff. 444, 444 d), and of which he had ratification on 16 April,
1398 (Cal. Pat., 1390—9, p. 320). He was inst. to his preb. in Beverley on
8 May, 1398 (York Sed. Vac. Reg., ff. 228, 229). On 18 March, 1398-9, he
exch. his preb. in Lincoln and Dunnington preb. for Cave preb. in York
(Lincoln Epis. Reg. Beaufort, ff. 217, 217 d; 19 March in Reg. Scrope, f. 1
and d) on a pres. by the Crown, bearing date 26 Feb. (Cal. Pat., 1396 — 9,
p. 477). On 15 Sept., 1399, he had a grant from Richard II. of the mastership

•fof St. Leonard's hospital, York (ibid., p. 595), and on 14 Oct. he obtained ratifica-
tion of his estate in this, in his churches of Algarkirk and Somersham, and his
prebs.in York, Beverley and Wilton (Hid., 1399—1401, pp. 4, 5). The Lincoln
registers contain no record of his having obtained possession of Somersham.

^He was one of the founders of the Raveuser chantry in Lincoln minster in
1398- (Hid., 1396 — 9, p. 477), and is named as one of the supervisors chosen in
July, 1407, to select workmen for the building of the great tower of York
minster (ibid., 1405 — 8, p. 383). His name appears as a legatee of John Scarle
in 1405 (Test. Ebor., iii., 24), and as one of the legatees to each of whom bishop
Skirlaw of Durham left a silver basin and ewer in 1406 (ibid., i., 410). In 1414
he and Thomas Haxey were executors of John Neuton, treasurer of York, who
left Waltham a silver basin with a great letter M on the bottom (ibid., i., 367).
lie died in 1416 : his will (ibid., iii., 55 vqq.) bears date 2 Sept. with codicil of
5 Oct., and was proved at Beverley on 9 Oct. He desired to be buried in
Lincoln minster, next his uncle John Ravenser. His bequests included £40 to
the fabric of York, 100 marks to that of Lincoln, and £40 to that of Beverley
minster, the last bequest being devoted to the construction of the great east
^window. To Beverley he also left most of his law-books with the reversion of
others: other books of canon law were left to King's hall, Cambridge. He
bequeathed an antiphoner to Algarkirk church, and a portas and missal, which

-had belonged respectively to his uncles Richard and John Ravenser, to the
Ravenser chantry at Lincoln. His executors gave a long silver banner-stave
for processions to the church of York (York Fabric Soils, p. 220).

THOMAS WYOT. There were two or three clerks of this name at the begin-
ning of the fifteenth century between whom it is hard to distinguish. One of
these, on 14 June, 1393, obtained a papal mandate to receive collation of a
reserved canonry and prebend in Ferris cathedral, which was disputed by another
claimant. He was vicar of Kilcolumb, co. Kilkenny, and had recently had

302 VISITATION DOCUMENTS.

provision of the vicarage of Bray, Berks, which he proposed to resign on
accepting a benefice in the gift, joint or several, of the bishop and prior and
convent of "Winchester (Cat. Papal Letters, iv., 468). He had ratification of
his estate in the -)rcb. of Whitechurch or Slecultre in Ferns, 4 May, 1399 (Cal.
Pat., 1396—9, p! 521), and again 19 Sept., 1401 (ibid., 1399—1401, p. 484).
Thomas Wyot, chaplain, had coll. of the church of Horton, Bucks, 4 Aug.,
1402 (Lincoln Epis. Reg. Beaufort, Inst., f. 192 d), in which his estate was
ratified on 10 March, 1402-3 (Cal. Pat., 1401—5, p. 206), after some
dispute which necessitated the issue of a commission to keep the peace (ibid.,
p. 275). On 18 Dec., 1403, he exch. Horton for Wymondham, Leices. (Lincoln
Epis. Eeg. Beaufort, Inst., ff. 83, 193). On 19 Sept., 1411, Thomas Cordon
exch. Wymondham for Stanwell, Middlesex (Lincoln Epis. Eeg. Eepyngdon,
Inst., f. 166 d).

The Wyot, however, associated with the diocese of York appears to be
Thomas Whiot, priest, inst. to Birkby on 20 March, 1403-4 (Eeg. Scrope,
f. 166). Thomas Wyot, priest, on 8 Dec., 1409, exch. Birkby for a mediety of
Cotgrave, Notts (Eeg. Bowet, i., f. 213), which he res. by 5 June, 1411 (ibid.,
f. 219 d : see also a mention of him in Cal. Papal Letters, vi., 273). This is
probably the same person as the canon of St. Sepulchre's chapel mentioned on
p. 195, who obtained his preb., being then a household clerk of archbishop
Bowet, 22 Sept., 1409 (Eeg. Bowet, i., f. 44 d). He had coll. of the succentor-
ship of York, 1 Sept., 1429, and of Normanton j.reb. in Southwell, 27 Dec.,
1421 (ibid., ff. 70 d, 72 d, 73). The archbishop left " vnam integram robam de
scarlet" and 100s. to sir Thomas Wyot (Test. Ebor., iii., 82-3). Thomas
Wiot vacated the preb. of St. Mary's altar at Beverley by death in 1441-2
(Eeg. Kempe, f. 48).

( 303 )

INDEX.

The figures in parentheses indicate that the name is repeated that number

of times in the same page.
The letter '•' n " indicates that the name is in the notes to the page.

Abel. Abelis, Abelle, Walterus filius.

10, 101, 103
Abelium, Wido, 20
Aberford. 138, 157, 158, 249
Abraam. Abraham, Robertas filius,

19 ; Thos., Thos. son of. 113 (3) ;

Will., 127

Acarii, Gainellus. 38
Acaster Malbis, 158, 251
Acelot uxor Hugonis Buhner, 5
Ack', Adam, 117
Ackworth, Acworth, 162, 250
Acle, see Aycliffe
Aclent, West, see West Auckland
Acum, Ric. de, 115
Adam cum arcu, 36 ; cum barba, 48,

72 ; Alexander fil. ejus, 72
Addingham, Adyngham, 160, 255
Addoc, Cristiana filia Will., 3
Ade, Rob. fil., 31 ; Rog. fil., 50.
Adel, Addell', Adill', 159, 250
Adlingfleet, 159, 254, 254?t
Adwick, Adwike, Athewyk-le-Street,

163, 253, 254 ; -on-Dearne, 163, 252
Agnete, Rob. fil., 41
Ail win, Ale win, Alwin, Aylwin, Petro-

nilla filia, 81 ; Radulfus fil., 78 ;

Rob. fil., 112 ; de Branspath. 47 ; de

Slikebume, 66 ; de Stoketone, 79
Ainderby Steeple, 206, 277
Ainsty deanery, 138, 148, 157%, 159//,

160%, 250, 251, 277
Air, Galf ridus le, 3
Airmyn, Ayerminne, Ayremyn, 175%,

281 ; W Adam de. 289 ; Will., bishop

of Norwich, 141, 281, 282, 288
Aislaby, Asalakeby, Aselakeby, Aslac-

by, Aslackeby, Aslageby, Asselage-

by, Aslakeby, 80 ; maneriumde, 16 ;

villata de. 77, 86 ; Galf ridus fil.

Rob. de, 76 ; Joh. fil. Walt, de, 10 ;

Juliana uxor Walt, de, 78 ; Plesen-

cia uxor Thome de. 83, 96, 97 : Rob.

de, 76, 101 ; Thos. de, 87 ; Thos.

heres de, 83; Walt, de, 78; Will.

fil. Henr. de, 4
Akesekes, Akeseles, Galfridus de, 23,

34

Akton, Laurence de, 118
Alani, Brianus fil., 34
Aldbrough (Holderness), 181, 268
Aldene, Jordanus de, 22
Aldin Grange, Aldyngrigge, 110
Aldingham (Lanes.), 209, 279
Aldington (Kent), 300
Aldrnan, Johannes. 6
Alduse, Joh. fil., Rob. fil., Cristiana

uxor Joh. fil., 4
Aleinscheles, Gilb. fil. Alex, de, Hawi-

sia filia Rob. de, 68
Alewent, 82

Alexandri, Beatricia filia, 81
Algarkirk (Lines.), 301
Alicia, 13 ; infantula, 27
Alicie, Joh. fil., 79 ; Rob. fil., 26, 27,

30 ; vidue, Rob. fil., 31
Allerdean, Allerdene, Allirden in

Norhamschyre, 118 ; Nich. de, 114
Allerton, see Northallerton ; Mau-

leverer, Aluerton Malurry, 203,

211 (2), 213, 277 ; priory, 203%
Allertonshire, Alvertonshire, 140, 146,

149, 229 ; jurisdiction, spirituality,

189, 192,263
Almondbury, Almundbery, Almund-

bury, 162, 250, 295 (2)
Alnemuta, 15

Alnham, Alaham, 237 ; Yvo de, 115
Alnwick, Alnewik, 147, 237 ; abbey,

237% (3), 238w (3) ; Will., bishop of

Lincoln, 212% (2), 299
Alston, Aldiston', 236
Alverton, Aluretone, sec North-
allerton ; Sir Hugh, 274
Alwent, John, 218
Alwinton, Aluerton', 237
Alwinus, see Ailwin
Amounderness,Amondernes', deanery,

145, 150, 202, 208
Ampleforth prebend (York), 300

804

INDEX.

Amundeuille. Damundeuille, Ed-

mnndeuille. Mundeuille, Radulfus

de, 10, 85, 92. 95—y? ; Rob. de. le

bastard, 41
Ancita de Clara. 78
Ancroft. Anecroft, 114
Andree, Job. fil., 85
Andrew, Ric., dean of York, 291
Anerceby, dom. R., 36
Anglerus, Will., 124
Anglicus, nee Inglys
Angouleine, Engolisma, Hugh de,

archdeacon of Canterbury, 141,281,

282, 290

Annesley, Andesley, 173, 261
Annyngson', Thos., 211
Antegone filia Gilb. de Thikeley, 36
Apesthorpe prebend (York), 295
Appleton, Appulton, Nun, priory, 159.

166, 251, 256 ; -le- Street, 191. 265 ;

Wiske, 189, 264
Applingdene. see Epplingdene
Appuldurford (I.W.), 296
Arch'. Henr.. Alicia mater ejus, 55
Archidiaconi, Emericus fil., 32
Arcu, Adam cum. 36
Ardene, 64
Argentein, Argentoin, Joh. fil. Will.

de, 70 ; Emma mater ejus, 70 (2)
Arkendale, 21 4 n
Arkendenlofthows, 214
Arkil. Archilli, Thos. fil. Rog. fil.. 31 ;

de Magna Ose worth, 73
Arksey, Arkesay, 164%, 253
Arlecdon, Arledon, 279
Arlovvse, Sir Will., 274
Arms : — Burghdon, 125% ; Heron,

119» ; de la Ley, 114% ; Umfra-

ville. 125%

Armthorpe, Armethorp. 164%, 253
Arnall, see Arnold
Arncliffe (\\r.R.). 161.255
Arnold, Araald, Arnall', 173, 261 ;

John. 291 ; Ric., subdean of York.

195. 241, 291 ; Rob. fil., 23
Artel. Rob., 81

Arthington priory. 163%, 249. 256%
Arthur, Artur. Ralf, 49; Will., Ill,

127 ; Grayfot, 39 '
Aselakeby. see Aislaby
Ashridge (Berks), 216%
Askham Brian. Askeham, Askam.

158, 252 ; Richard, 158. 251
Astini, Rog. fil.. 20
Aston, 163, 253'
Attebenelandes, 123
Attenborough, Adyngburgh. 173, 261
Atwick, Attyngwik', Autynwik', 180.

268

Aublin, Thos., 48
Auckland, Aclent. Auclent, 48. 49.

113, 147 ; burgus, 54 ; ecclesia, 46,

283 ; veredictum, 54 ; vetus parcus.

39 ; dean, see Will. Doncastre ; dean

and chapter, 232% ; me?sarius de,

see Joh. Paulin ; Joh. faber,

Beatrix filia ejus, 39 ; Rogerus

serviens de, 39
Auckland, Norhte, 44
Auckland, S. Elene, 40
i Auckland, West. Joh. fil. Eustachii de,

38 ; Rogerus fil. Joh. de, 39 ; Will.

Bercarius de, Ivetta uxor ejus,

Henricus fil. ejus. 40
j Auditor causartdn, 241
| Auford. Walt, de, 57 ; Will, de, 113
i Aughton, Aghton', 185. 267
I Aula, Will. de. Gilbertus fil. ejus, 31
i Aurifaber, Magister Walterus, 46
j Averham, Aueram, Auerham, 170,

259

| Avignon, 283
: Aycliffe, Acle, 233 ; molendinum.

villata, 37 ; Thos. longus de. 37
I Ayremyn, see Airmyn
j Aysgarth, Aykeskarth', Ayskerth',

204, 220 (2), 276
i Ayton, Great, Aton', 189, 264

B

Baar, Baart, see Barde

Babwortb, 169, 258

Bachelor. Semannus, Cecilia uxor
ejus, 22

Bacherii, lueta filia Ric., 30

Badde, Syeriz, 66

Badsworth. Baddesworth, 148, 164,
251

Baifot, Rob.. 39

Bain ton, 184, 267

Baker, Walran the, 128

Baldewinus quidam, 29

Balliol. Baielo. Baillio. Baillol, Baiolo,
Balliolo, Bayllol, Beglolo, Eus-
tachius de. 10 ; Eustachius f rater
dom. Joh. de. 85 ; Henr. de, 10 ;
Joh. de, 9, 10, 85, 86 ; Baldewinus
homo Joh. de, 5 ; Rob. marescallus
Joh. de, 10 ; Tassin fil. Ingeram de,
8

! Ballo. Astinus de, 54
! Bamburgb, Baumburgh, 147, 237 ;

master of, 237
! Banes, Joh., 2] 6
j Barba. Adam cum, 48, 72 ; Alex. fil.

ejus'. 72

j Barde, Baar, Baard, Baart. Berta uxor
Roulandi, Margeria uxor Rad.,
Rad. fil. Roulandi, 83 ; Rolandus.
Roolant, 10, 101, 103

INDEX.

805

Bardney abbey. 135, \7$n (2)

Bardsey, Bardesay. Bardesey, 159, 250

Baret, Rad., 20

Barford, Bereforde, Alex, fullo de, 48

Barlay, John. 224

Barlow, Berleye, 53

Barmpton, Bermestone, Bermetone.

Bermistone, Bernestone. 35. 66, 71 ;

villata. 71, 73 : Thos. fil. Warini de,

73

Barmston, Berneston', 180, 267
Barnard Castle, Bernardcastiell, Cas-

trum Bernardi, 5, 233% ; castrum,

villata, veredictum, 15 ; Elyas fil.

Godefridi de, 15 ; Hugo serviens de.

75 ; Ingram de, clericus, 75 ; Eic. de.

clerk. 110; Job. fil. Rog. de, 98;

Will. fil. Rogeri de, 97, 98
Barnburgh, Barneburgh.' 147, 163,

164. 253
Barnby prebend (York), 195, 291, 295,

296 ; -on-Don, 164, 253 ; -in-the- Wil-
lows, 170, 259

Barningham, 205, 277 ; (Suffolk), 29 \n
Barnsley, Barneslay, 148, 252
Barry, Will., prior of Finchale, 223
Barton-in-Fabis, 172, 260 ; -le-Street,

191,265; Ric., 224,225%
Barwick-in-Elmet, Berwyk, 157, 249
Basford, Baseford', Bayseford', 173,

261
Basset. Basse th, Agneta uxor Regin.,

33 ; Hugo, 23 : dom. Regin., 112 ;

Will., 34
Bat. Job., 66
Batayle, James, 122. 123 (2) ; John,

122 ; John (Willitoft), 122 ; Peter,

123 (3). 124 ; Rob., 123 (3), 124
Batel, hospitale de, 82
Bateman, Adam, 35 ; Alanus, 24
Bath and Wells, bishops, Thos. Bekyn-

ton, 239% ; Henry Bowet, 135
Batley, Batelay. 1 60, 250
Battlefield college (Salop), 278%
Baumber (Line.), Baumburgh, 212« ;

Will., 21 lw, 212, 213
Beadnell, Bednell, 119%, 120
Beatrix. 5

Beaufort, cardinal, 147
Beauvale priory. 173n, 203rc. 216,217
Bee, Adam. Elizabet his wife, 1 13
Beckermet, Beckirmet, 210, 280
Bedale, 205, 276

Bedburn. Bedeburn, capella de, 46
Beddingtori (Surrey), 300
Bedlington, Bedlingtone, Bedlintone.

236 ; villata de. 65, 67 (2) ; Scarf de,

65

Bedminster (Somerset), 294
Bedrule (Roxburgh), Rule Bethoc,

Adam, parson of. 125

Beechhill, prebend (York), Bichyll,
195

Beeford, Beford', 180. 268

Beelsby (Line.), 292, 293

Beeston (Notts), 173, 261

Beetham, 207, 278

Beglolo, see Balliol

Bekynton. Thos.. bishop of Bath and
Wells. 239 n

Belle. Will., 9. 10, 11

Benedicti, Will. til.. 12

Benefeldsede, 67

Benour, John. 228

Bentham, 207, 278

Benton, 235

Bercarius, Eustaohius, 40 ; Job.,
Alanus fil. ejus, 19

Bereforde, see Barford

Bereville, Mr Ric. de, 1 1 1

Berleye, Rad. de, us carpen-

tarius de, 53

Bermetone, Bermistone, see Barmpton

Bernard, Ric., 30

Bernardcastiell, see Barnard Castle

Bernardi, Ric. fil., 45

Bernaye, Rad. de, 68

Berneston, see Barmston

Bernyngham. John, treasurer of York.
137, 246, 257, 272, 272n, 273, 291,
293, 294, 295, 296. 298

Berrig', 114

Berrington, Berrigdon, Beringdon,
114%; Henry de, 114, 117

Berta uxor Roulandi Baar, 83

Bertram, Rad. fil., 45 (2) ; Roger, 10,
85 ; Roger (Bottehole), 85 ; Will,
fil. Rad., 45

Best, Henry, 211

Betermaulhe, Walter. 41

Betoce, Will., 42

Beutroue, aula de, 24

Beverley, Beverlaco, 135, 140, 149, 298,
299 ; churches : minster, 140, 149.
182, 182%, 183, 186, 269, 294, 301 ;
altars and chantries : B.M., 272,
273, 301, 302 ; St. Andrew, 272, 273,
292, 297 ; St. James. 272, 273 ; St.
John of Beverley, 299 ; St. Kathe-
rine, 272. 273. 298, 299 ; St. Martin,
le charnel, 183, 272, 273. 274, 274%,
292, 301 ; St. Michael, 272, 273;
St. Peter, 272, 273, 294, 295 ; St.
Stephen, 272, 273; St. Mary, 183,
269 ; St. Nicholas, called Holme-
kirk', 183, 269; provostship. 140,
149 ; provostry, 180», 181%, 182%,
183». 184rc (2), 268, 269; canons
and prebendaries, sec John Bernyng-
ham, Henry Bowet, John Conge,
Will. Duffield, Will. Felter, Thos.
Haxey. John Notingham, Will.

306

INDEX.

Scrope. Ric. Tone; chantry chap-
lains, list. 274 : chancel 1 or. see Thos.
Sprotley ; chapter. 141, 200 ; clerks
of the Berf fel. list. 274 ; dean of
the Christianity, XM Thos. Myn- |
skyp ; precentor, see Piob. Hambald ; j
provost, see John Bernyngham, [
Rob. Rolleston : sacrist, see Henry
Grove ; vicars choral, list, 274 ;
Roger de, 61 ; Will, de, 34

Bichyll, gee Beechhill.

Bickerton, Bikertone, Rekerton,120w ;
Hugode, 85 ; Thos.de, 120

Bidicford, 65

Biham. see Bytham

Bikelewrthe. Bikeswrthe, 65

Bilborough (Notts), Bilburgh. 173.
261

Bilbrough (Yorks), Bilburgh, 158,
252

Bille, John son of John, 117

Billingham, 232

Bilsthorpe, Billesthorp', 169, 258

Bilton (Ainsty), 158, 249; prebend
(York), 158% ; Sir Rob., 274

Bincestre. Ivo de. 64

Bingham. 139, 171 (2), 259 ; deanery.
139, 171

Bingley, Bynglay, 161, 255

Binnan, Adam, 8 ; Alanus fil. Nich..
4 : Ranulf, 1

Birdsall, Bordsall', Bridsall', 178, 265

BirelF. John, notary public, 228

Birkby. Birtby, Britby. 192, 229. 230,
263, 302

Birkin, Brekkyn', 159. 251

Birn, Rad. de, 43

Birning, Rob., 72

Birnysshton. see Burneston

Birstal (W. R.), 160, 250 ; see also
Burstall

Birtley,Birteley, Britley, 225% ; John,
225 ; John de, junior, 117

Birton, see Burton, Kirk

Bishopthorpe, 286

Bisoutyestret, 111

Blackline, Blaickline, Rob., 12

Blackwell, Blackewelle. Blacwelle,
Blakewelle. 35, 87 ; Benedictus de,
48 : Rad. de. 87

Blak, Blake, Joh., 74. 214

Blakburn'. Ric., 225

Blanchlarid abbey. 235%, 236%

Blatheum. Will. de. Duna uxor ejus.
62

Blaxton, Nich.. 120

Blisworth (Northants), 281 n

Blyth (Notts), 148, 168, 257: priory,
168%, 257

Board, Walter, 11

Boggate, Mr Adam de, 125

Bohun, Rob. fil. Thos. de, 6

Boil, Seman de. 86

Bolam. Bolum, 82, 235 ; Rog. fil. Edofe

de. 82 ; Thos. fil. Sebine de, 8
Boldon. Boldene, 73, 231 ; Magna,

71: Agneta filia Nigelli de, (13;

Will. fil. Rob. de. 73
Bol ton priory, 158 H, 160*, 161. 161w,

1C5//, 167, 254, 256; -by-Bowland,

138, 160,255 ; -on-Dearne. 163, 252 ;

Percy, 158, 251, 291 n, 300 ; -le-

Sands. 279, 299 ; Nich., 225 ; Ric,,

211

Bondegate, Simon de, 35
Bonnington, 172, 260
Bonshommes, 21 Qn
Bootle, Bothell', Botyll', 209, 280
Boredham, Boredona, see Burghdon
Boroughbridge, Ponsburgi. deanery.

150, 202, 203 ; see also Burbrig'
Bossall, 187. 262

Botevant prebend (York), 195, 293
Bothal, Botehale, Bothel', Bottehole,

10, 85, 236 ; Walter de, 74
Bothe, Emma filia Ran.de. 45 ; Will.,

archbishop of York, 300
Bottehole. see Bothal
Bouer, Walt, le, 15
Boughton, Boghton', Bughton, 169.

258

Bourton, Nigellus de, 60
Bowes, 205, 277 ; Maude wife of Will.,

knt., 12l7t : Ralph. 121 : Ralph

(Dalden). 115 : Rob. de, 112. 117;

Will., knt., 121 ; Will, his son, 121
Bowet, Henry, archbishop of York,

131, 292, 302; his visitation,

152—201 ; Henry, archdeacon of

Richmond, 150, 218. 272. 273, 292,

295

Boy, Geoffrey. Agnes his wife. 81
Boynton, 180, 266
Boys, John du, Thos. du, 118
Brabazon, R. le, 110
Bracewell. 161. 255
Braciator, Rogerus, 74
Bradbury, Bradberie, John, 225 :

Phil, de, 109 ; Thos., 225 ; Thos'.

son of John de. 109
Bradele, Bradelege, 67 : Ran. bercarius

de, 65

Bradeway, Joh.. 241
Bradeye. Walterus. 47
Bradford, 161, 250 ; Thos., 120
Bradheuid. Emma. Thos., 35
Brafferton, Brafforton', 188, 2K2 : Ag-
neta uxor Will, de, Alanus fil.

Will. de. 37, 38 ; Joh. de. 42 ; Joh. fil.

Will, de^ 38

Braithwell. Brathewell', 164, 253
Brakenbire. nee Braneebere

INDEX.

307

Bratnpton, Matt, de, 119
Bramvvith. Kirk. 1C4. 253
Brancebere, Brakenbire, Will, de, 49.

50

Brancepeth. Branspathe. Branspethe.
Braunspath. 58, 233 ; villata, 41 ;
Agneta filia Eudonis forestarii de.
43 ; Alicia filia Beatricis de, 41 ;
Alicia lotrix de, Thos. fil. ejus, 42 :
Aylwinus de, 47 : Elyas fil. Petri
de, 41

Brandesburton, 180, 269
Brandon, Brandone, boscus de, 42 ;

Est, 113: fee, 113
Brandsby, Brandesby, 188, 262
Brantingham, 176, 276
Brasur, Petrus le. 74
Bray (Berks), 302
Brayton, 159, 251, 294
Bredde. Rob.. 39
Brenderis. 122
Brennewate, Will., 25
Breretone, Alex. fil. Alex, de, 8
Bretone, see Brito
Bretton, Monk, priory. 138, 162, I62n,

163», 167, 252, 252*,' 256
Bridgeford, Brigef ord. East, 171, 260 ;

West. 172, 260

Bridlington priory, 140, 149, 179(2),
179» (4), 180 (4), 182», 186, 204* (2),
206», 217, 218. 266 ; parish church^
179, 266

Brigham; 145, 210. 279
Brignall, Bringenhale, Bryggenhall',

206, 277 ; Gil la filia Alani de, 15
Brington (Hunts), 295, 296
Brinkburn priory. 147, 237. 237n
Bristol, Bristolle. St. Mary's, Redcliff e.
294. 295 ; St. Werburgb's, 294, 295 ;
Job. de, 15
Britley, see. Birtley
Brito, Bretone, Plesencia filia Will..
79, 83, 88, 92, 94, 95 (2) ; Nich.
le. 80 : Will., 88
Brittine. Alanus fil. Will.. 37
Brodholme priory. 170/t
Brodsworth. Broddesworth'. 164, 253
Brome, Walter de. 113
Bromh'. Will, de, 46
Brompton, Bromtone (Pickering
Lythe), 141, 190, 264, 291 *; Pat-
rick. 204, 276 ; Job. de, 116
Bromyard (Hereford), 299, 300
Broughton, Broghton' (Craven), 161,

255 ; Upper. Sulney, 171, 260
Brown. Broun. Ric., 239*; Mr Will.,

151

Broxtow, Brokstow, 173, 261
Brun. Brunne, 39; aqua de, 51, 52;

Walter. 13 ; see also Burn
Brunghil. Alanus de, 47

Brunnolle, Will, fil., 31

Bruntoft, Brumtoft, 8 ; dom. Simon

de, 112

Brunton. Ranulpb de, 111
Brusteldum, 46
Bruton, Rad. de, 56
Bubwith, Bubwiht. 185. 275 ; Xich..

299 ; Walter son of Will, de, 124
Buckingham, archdeacon, see Thos.

Bekynton

Buckrose deanery, 140, 149, \lln
Budle. Buddill, Butell. 114, 115
Bugthorpe prebend (York), 239
Bulloc, Alan. 1

Bulmer. Bulemer. Bulmar, 188, 262 ;
deanery. 140 ; Hugh, Acelot his
wife, 5 ; John de, 10, 85, 97
Bulur. Henry, 27
Bui well, 173,261
Bunny, Bonay, Boney, 1 73, 260
Bunting, Roger. 82
Burbrig', Burnbrig'. John. 216 ; Rob.,

216*

Burdon, Burden, Burdone, Burtone,
77, 89, 90, 93 ; Alicia uxor Ric. de,
84 ; Emma soror Will, de, 90 ;
Helias de, 11; Hugh, lord of West
Grindon. Ill: Sir Hugh, 113;
Hugh de, 113; John, 78, 91, 92,
97 ; Ric. de, 90 ; Rob., 85 ; Stephen
de, 1 1 1 : Thos. de, 75, 90 ; Will., 226 ;
Will, de, 88, 92 : Will. fil. Ric. de,
83. 90

Bure, Agnes, Walter, 79
Burges. Walter, 111
Burghdon, Boredham. Bored ona,
Boroughdona, arms, 125« ; Sir
David de, 127 : Sir Gi!b. de, 125« ;
Walter de, Walter his son, 125
Burghwallis, Burghwalas, 164, 164n,

254

Burn. Brunne. 24 ; sec also Kirkburn
Buraby, 185. 275
Burneston, Birnysshton, Brenyston.

205. 276
Burnholme,Nun. Burnehom. 185. 275,

300

Burnsall. Brynsall, 161, 255
Burradon, 125/i

Burscough priory (Lane.), 260»
Burseblades, 66 ; Wriot de, 67
Burstall (E.R.), Birstall, 182, 268
Burt', 12

Burton Agnes, Annas, 141, 180,
266 ; Bishop. 140, 183, 275 ; Cherry,
North, 183. 269 ; Fleming, 179, 266 ;
Joyce. Jorce, -lorcy, 173. 261 ; Kirk,
Birton. 161, 250 ; in Kendal, sec
Kendal ; -in-Lonsdale, 207, 278 ;
West. 168. 258 ; John, vicar of
Knaresbro'. 211, 212; Sir John,

x 2

308

INDEX.

clerk of the Berefel, 274 ; John de, I

281 ; Rob., 234
Burradon, 125//
Buryes, Thos.. 21 1
Burythorpe. Barthorp', Berithorp', |

178, 265

Butcher, carnifex, Helyas the, 128
Butevant prebend (York), Botevant, i

195, 293
Butta. 122

Buttelesfeld, John de, 112
Byam. Petrus de, 52
By land abbey. 140, 178%, 185%, 188,

189w, Win, 192
Byrun, Birune, Agneta mater of Rob.

fil. Ric. de, 69 ; Ric. de, 68
Byssopetre, Rog. de, 98
Bytham, Biham (Line.),. 127% ; Peter

de. 127
By well, St. Andrew. St. Peter, 236

Cahtorp, Agneta uxor Thos. de, 28
Caldecotes, Joh. de, 43
Calder abbey. 145, 210, 210?* (2), 280%
Calee, Gale, Caly, Thos., 226
Callaley, Kalule'y, 115» ; Will, de, 116
Calverley, 160, 250
Cam, Alicia uxor Will, de, 83
Cambois, Cambhus, capella de. 72
Cambridge. Gonville Hall. 299 : King's
hall, 301 ; Pembroke 'hall, 238« ;
chancellor, see Stephen le Scrope
Camieston (Roxburgh), Cambes. 124
Campsall, Camsall, 164. 254
Can', Ric., 127
Canerum, 10
Canne, Will, de, 94
Cannis, Joh. fil. Rad. de, Michael

f rater ejus, 51

Canterbury, Cantuariensis, archbis-
hop, Baldwin, 283 ; Thos. Arundel,
135 ; see also John Kempe ; arch-
deacon, Thos. Chichele, 239% ; see
also Hugh of Angouleme, Symon
de Langeton ; Alicia uxorSteph., 79
Cantley. Canteley. 164. 253
Capella, Hugo de. 94
Capellani, Adam homo, 23
Capellanus, Earth olomeus. 38
Cappe, Beatrix. Ric.. 39
Carable, Will., 13
Carcolstoii. Kercolston'. Keyrcolston',

172, 260

Cardinal, Prospero de Colonna, car-
dinal of San Giorgio in Velabro,
239rt ; cardinal of Sta Balbina, see
John Kempe, archb. of York
Caretarii, Hugo fil. Petri. 13

Caretarius, Walterus, 41
Carham, Karham, 237
Carkebyre, Rob. fil. Alani de. 85
Carle, Will., 9, 10

Carlisle, bishop. 237% : prior and con-
vent, 235%, 236%. 237fl
Carlton, Carleton, -in-Craven. 161,
255 ; -in-Lindrick, 169, 257, 300 ;
(Snaith). 175%, 214: Geoffrey de.
35 ; Mr. John, 228 ; Will.de. notary
public, 289, 290
Carnaby, 180, 266

Carpentarii, Cristiana filia Rad., Gun-
noc mater ejus, 52 ; Margareta filia
Joh.. Cecilia mater ejus. 24
Carpentarius, Ric., 82
Carres, Kaunres, Rog.. Rog. de, 1
Carro, Garrov, Karrov. Petrus fil. Rob.,
99, 103 ; Rob., 99, 103 ; Thos.. Thos.
de, 78,91,92,97,99, 100(2), 103 (2),
104 ; Thos. fil. Walt., 99. 103 ; Walt,
fil. Petri, 99, 103
Carstairs Castle, 125%
Cartmel, Cartmale, 209, 279 : priory,
145, 209, 210 (2); 210% (2). 279, 280
Casi, Elwaldus, 17
Cassorp, 28
Castell, John, 292
Castelman, Will., 35
Casteltone. Will, de, 109w
Castleford, Castelford, Castelforth,

162, 250

Castrum Bernard!, see Barnard Castle
Catesby (Northants), priory, 173??,
Catterick, Catric', Catryk, 205, 276 ;

deanery, 150, 204 ; John, 292
Catton. 140, 185, 267
Catwick, 180, 268
Cauell'. Sir Rob.. 274
Cave, North, 183. 275 ; South, prebend

(York), 195,292.301
Cawood, Cawode, Castle, 137, 138,139,
140. 294 : letters dated from. 153,
157^ 165—167, 174—177, 186 (2),
187. 191—194.201; chapel. 294:
Will, canon of York, 143, 195,
197 (2), 274, 292
Cawsby, see Cowesby
Cecilie, Osbertus fil., 30
'. Cestre. see Chester-le- Street
Chabingtone, Chabintone, Schabin-

tone, .SYY; Choppington
Chambre. John del, 118; Thos. fil.

Will, de la. 70
Chapeleyn, Will., 28
Chapman, mercator. Regin., Ill, 112 ;

Thos.. 213

Charing (Kent). 298
Charlowe, Roger de, 74
Charron, Guychard de. junior, 109
I Cha.rtenay. Chartray. Schartenay, Ric.

tKDEX.

309

de, 77. 78 (2), 79, 84, 87 ; Matilda

uxor ejus, 77. 78, 79. 87 ; Will. fil.

Kic., 78

Chatton, Shatton, 238
Chaunceler. Ric., Ill
Chaupeneys, Adam, 31
Chepwelle, see Chopwell
Cheam (Surrey), 300
Chesewic, Chesewyke. Henry de, Ric.

de, 1 1 7
Chester-le-Sbreet, Cestre, 63, 64. 73,

146, 231; boscus, 64; veredictum.

51—53. 62—74 ; viilata, 63 ; Elyas

f ullo de, 62 ; Hugo molendinarius

de, 64 ; Simon prepositus de, 71 :

Laurencius de, 73 ; Will. fil. Mathei

de, 65

Chichele, Ihos., canon of York, 239?*
Chichester, prebend, Coleworth. 297 ;

bishop, xee John Kempe
Childe, John, 216
Chillinghani, Chelyngham. 238
Chilton, 109, 120 ; Little, John lord

of, 109 ; Johnde, 111
Chipchase, 109rc
Chippyng, 208, 278
Chollerton, 224, 236
Choppington. Chabington, Chabin-

tone, Schabintone, 67 (2), 69, 74 ;

Elyas fil. Rob. de. 74 ; Phil, de, 67
Chopwell, Chepwelle, 72
Churchdown jurisdiction, 193
Cissor, Alanus, 55
Clapham, 278, 299
Clare, Clara, Ancita de. 78 ; Amicia,

Auicia de, 91, 92, 97', 99, 100 (2),

101 (3), 103 (2), 104
Clareburgh, 168
Claughton, Claghton, 207, 279
Clayworth, Claworth, Clawworth',

168, 257

Cleator, Clether', 2Wn, 280
Cledone, 9
Clementhorpe, see St. Clement's

priory, York
Clericus, Adam, 21 ; Job.., 74; Regin.,

101, 103 ; Will., 70
Clerk, Adam the, 127, 128 ; Chris., 2 12 ;

Hugh. 216 ; Hugh the, 113 ; John

(Copgrove). 216 ; John (Hunsin-

gore), 212 ; John (Marton). 212 ;

John (Whixley), 216 ; Ralph the,

125; Ric. the, 123 (2), 124; Rob.,

216
Cletium, Cleth'i, Clethun, 80, 81 (2) ;

Betricia filia Rog. de, 82 ; Walter

de, 80, 91 ; Winniua filia Patricii

de, 9
Cleveland, archdeaconry, 140, 141.

149, 187—192, 263—265; deanery.

189 ; archdeacon, see Will. Duffield

Clifforde, Cliford. Mariota, uxor Rob.

de, 33 ; Sir Rob., 117
Clifton (Notts), 172, 260 : Campville

(Staffs), 293, 294 ; North, 170, 259 ;

Will., 225

Cliuedone, R. de, 64
Clothecroft, Alicia filia Beatrix de, 20
Coastley. Cosley, 115 ; John de. 115
j Coatham Mundeville, Cotum Ead-

mundesuille. Catun, Cottone, 81 ;

Agneta de, 12 ; Hugo de, 78, 79, 92 ;

Rad. de, 10 ; super Tesiam, 85
Cocken, Kokene, 62
Cockerham, Cokerharn, 208, 278
Cockermouth, Cokirmouth, honour,

114
Cockersand abbey, 145, 16 Iw, 208. 210,

278, 280
{ Cockerton, Kokertone, 35, 36 ; Emma

uxor Alani fil. Rad. de, Rad. fil.

Rad. de. 36
j Cockfield, Cockefeld, Cokefeld', Cok-

feld', 233 ; Nicholaa de. Rog. ser-

viens de, 45

Cocus, Colmus, 22 ; Will., 70
Cokeman, Rad., 73 ; Will., Syerith his

wife, 1 ; Sibilla, Taya, filie ejus, 1
Cokeney, sec. Cuckney
Coket, Rob.. 127, 128 ; Walt., 11
I Colchester, archdeacon, see Will. Duf-
field

Coldestein, Alanus. 1
Coldon, 181, 268
Colhome, see Cowlani
Collingham, Colingham (York), 159,

249 ; North, South, 170, 259 ; Will.

de, notary public, 289, 290
Colmun probator, 51
Colmus Cocus, 22
Colonna. cardinal Prospero, 239fi
Colston Basset, 171, 260
Colville, Coleville, Sir Phil, de, 114 ;

Will, de, 117
Col wick, 173. 261
Cvmpurta, \ 98n
Conani, Henr. fil., 32
Conge, Counge, John, 272, 273, 293
Couisborough, Conysburgh', Conuys-

burgh', 163, 253
Coniscliffe, Connclyff, 233 ; cimi-

terium de, 7 ; Alanus diaconus de,

Ric. de, 7 ; Alicia de, 80
Conishead priory, Connyngeshede,

145, 2U8, 209» (3), 210, 210», 279,

280
Constitutions of Otho and Ottobuono,

246/i
Conyers, Coyneres, Koypers, Cumers,

G-alfridus pater Joh. de, 102 ; Joh.

de, 46, 76. 78 (2), 88. 94, 96. 98,

101 (2)

310

INDEX.

Cooperar, Henricus, 11

Cope*, 241

Copford (Essex). 293

Copgrove, Copgrave, 204. 215, 216,

217, 277

Copmanthorpe. 155w
Copthrawer, Emma, 15
Coquina, Joh. de, 7-1
Corbridge, Corebrig., 147. 236 ; Regin.

de, 17 ; Will., 229
r'oMla, 1

Cordon, Ric.. 239% ; Thos., 302
Corn, Ran., Thos. fil. ejus, 23
Corneford, Rog. fil. Thos. de, 27
Corneshon, Cornish on, 51 ; Margareta

uxor Eadmundi de, 70
Corney, Cornay, 210, 280
Coronatoris, Gerardus serviens, 28
Corsinside, Crossynside, 236
Cort, Rob., 215
Costock, Cortlyngstok, Cottelyng-

stoke, 171, 260

Cotgrave, Cottegrave, 172, 260, 302
Gotham (Notts), Cothom, Cotom, 170,

259
Cotom, Cot tone, Cotum, see Coatham,

Gotham

Cotterstock (Northants), 164%
Cottesmore (Rutland), 298
Cottingham, HO, 182, 268. 293,

297 (2)

Councils, Lateran, Lyons, 245/t
Coundon, Cumdone. Cundum, 38 ;

Gamellus Acarii de, Thos. de, 38
Coupland deanery, 145, 150, 202, 209.

279; David de, 116
Coventry, Charterhouse. 163%
Coverham. 204, 220, 276 ; abbey, 144,

145, 204, 204% (2), 207%, 210, 232%.

280; abbot, Cuthbert Redmire'

218%
Cowesby, Cawsby, Couseby, Cowseby,

192, 229 (2), 263

Cowherd, vaccarius. Henry the, 115
Cowlam, Colhome, Collom, Collum

178, 266 ; Mr. Ric., 292
Cowthorpe. Colthorp', 158, 249
Cowton, 206, 276
Coxwold, Cokewold, Cukwald, 189,

263

Coyman, Coiman, 56 ; Martinus, 89. 93
Crakehale, Eda de. 3
Crakepol. Ric., 27
Crambe. Crambom, Crambuin, 187

262

Cramelintone, 72

Craster, Crawsestre. Crawsetre, Ed-
mund. 120 ; Mr. H. H. E., 109%
Crathorne, 189. 264
Craucrumbe. Kraukrake. Kraukruke

58.59

Craven, Crauen. Crauene, deanery,
138, 149, 160, 161 : Joh. de, 72

Crawe, Roger, 19

Crayke, Crake, 263 ; Will., 218

Cribler, Rad. le, 31

Ct'ismatorium, 213

Crocestail, 24

Croft, 206, 276

Crofth', le, 114

Crof theuid, 1 1 4

Crofton, 160, 250

Crokar, Crokay. Thos., 218

Cromwell, 170, 258

Crook, Croc. Croch, Crohc, Croke,
Croxb, 65, 66, 112

Crophill prebend (Southwell), 292

Crossgate (Durham), 110%

Crounhale, Henry, 211%

Croxtelle, Ric. de, 28

Croxton abbey (Leic.), 207% (2)

Cuckney, Cokeney, 169, 258

Cumers, sec Conyers

Cundall, Cundale, 203, 211, 212, 213,
277

Cundum. see Coundon

Cunescliue, see Coniscliffe

Curant, Adam, 50

Curweruic, Elias de. 53

Cusin, Adam, Ric., 23

Cuteler, Rob., 128

Cuthbert, Will., 225

D

Daiuill, Rob. de, 32

Dalby, 188, 262 ; Thos., 293

Dalden, 22. 115 ; Alina wife of Will
de, 118 ; Elen wife of Will. de. 114 ;
Jurdan de, 115 ; Will. de. 110, 114,
118

Dalton, Daltone (Furness), 150. 209,
279 (2) ; (Sadberge). campus de, 9 ;
villata de, 2, 9 ; North, 185, 267 ;
South, 184, 269 ; -le-Dale, 232 ;
Galfri'dus fil. Will, de, 3 ; John, 227 ;
Rob. de, 88, 101 ; Will., 225, 227%

Dam, Joh. de, 14

Danby (Cleveland), 190, 264 ; Wiske,
206, 277

Darfield, Derfeld, 163, 252%

Darlington, Derlingtone. 147 ; balliva
de. 35 ; burgus de, 21 (2) ; ecclesia
de. 46, 233 ; veredictum de, 20—22,
35—51 ; villa de, 21 ; villata de, 20 ;
ballivus de, see Silvester of Dar-
lington ; Adam filius Ade persone,
presbiteri de, 20, 40, 50 ; Agneta
de, 21 ; Matilda filia Walt, de, 21 ;
Nicholaus cocus de. 48 ; Petrus de-
canus de, 46 ; Petrus filius persone

311

de, 21 ; Ric. tingtor de. 7"} ; Rob.

films Ade presbiteri de. ' 40, 50 :

Silvester de, 9. 13, 15, 74 ; Silvester

de, attorney of Roger of Jolby, 92 ;

Silvester de, ballivus de Derlington.

79, 98 ; Silvester de, coronator et

vicecomes Sadberge. 4. 11, 14,

16 (2) ; Thos. films Hugonis de. 21 :

Walt, tinctor de. 75 ; Will, presbiter,

persona de, 40, 50
Darrington, Darthyngton', Derthyng-

ton', 160, 251
Uarton, 162, 252
Daudri, dona. Rog., 112
Dauid, Adam fil. Galfridi fil.. 20 ;

Galfridus filius, 87 ; Helewisa uxor

Galfridi filii, 21 ; Rob. filius. 80
Davyson, Ric., 119
Dean, Deen'. Dene. 209, 279 ; Sir John.

274; Will., 41
Decime parcialcs, 156
Deerness. Dyuernes, 113
Deighton, Kirk, Dyghton'. 158, 249
Dene, see Dean
Dent, 278
Denton. Dentone (Durham). 35. 75,

82 ; (Northumberland) 236 ; Mar-

geria uxor Will. fil. Jellani de, 75 ;

Will.de, 112
Derby. Derebi, magister archidia-

conus de, 84 ; Thos. de, 128
Dereham, West, abbey (Norfolk), 161ft
Derwentdale, 147
Detccta, 133, 134, 147, 198%
Detoneshal, see Dinsdale
Deudone, Henr., 11
Deudonet, 8
Dewsbury. Devesbury, Dewesbury.

162. 250
Dey, Henr., 10
Dickering deanery, Dikeryng', 140,

149, 178

Dinnington, Dynyngtoii', 163, 253
Dinsdale, Dedynsale, Detoneshal, Di-

teneshale. Ditensale, Ditonsale,

Ditteneshale, ecclesia, 4. 233 ; mora.

101. 102 ; Agneta uxor Rog. de.

Alanus rnolendinarius de, 4
Dispensatoris. Alanus fil. Joh., 89, 93
Distyngton', 210, 279
Dobbes, Rob., precentor of York. 246,

257, 292, 293, 295
Doget. Will., 80
Doncaster, 163, 164w. 253 : deanery,

138, 14S ; Will., dean of Auckland,

228

Dorward,' John, 224
Downholme, Dounham, Downome.

204. 220, 276
Drax, 159,251 ; priory, 138, 159. 161«.

166, 185w, 251, 256

Dreng, Thos., 31

Driffield. prebend (York). Dryffeld,
239, 240w, 295, 298, 299 ; Thos., see
Thos. Mynskyp

Drigg. 21 ()//, 2S<)

Druri, Haldan, 62

Dry pool, 181. 268

Duffield, Mr. Will., archdeacon of
Cliveland, 272. 272w, 273. 292, 293

Duket. Hie., justice, 1

Dulle, Alanus, 44

Duna de Blatheum, 62

Dunewice, 15

Dunfrantville. -tec Umfraville

Dunnington. Donyngton', 149. 187,
262 ; prebend (York), 300, 301

Dui-ham, Dunellmum. Dunelmum,
14, 42, 43, 52, 65, 70, 71 . 87, 92, 109—
111, 146 (2) : archdeaconry, 147;
visitation, 230—234 ; boscus extra,
65 ; burgus, 54, 55 ; veredictum
burgi, 54 — 60 ; vetus burgus. 24,
llOn ; veredictum veteris burgi, 61 ;
castrum. 55, 56 ; constabularius
castri, 22 ; cathedral, magna eccle-
sia S. Cuthberti, 74, 113, 161w ;
altar of our Lady of Bolton, 223?i ;
churches : —unnamed, 2 ; St. Giles,
61, 231 ; veredictum vici S. Egidii
et homines. 61 ; St. Mary North
Bailey, St. Mary South Bailey, 231 ;
St. Mary Magdalen. Adam garcio
capellani de. 61 ; St. Nicholas, 33,
231 ; St. Oswald, 55, llOn, 231 ; vicar,
Nicholas. 24 ; curia, 49 ; deeds,
109—113 ; diocese, visitation, 134,
221—228, 230—238 ; fermarium, 54 ;
foresta episcopi. 46 ; gaila, prisona,
1.4; novus pons. 55 ; priory, 192w,
231w. 232n (4), 233rc (4), 236ft, 237/t,
238w(2) ; priory officials : — convent,
list of, 223—226 ; bursar, 224 ;
cellarer, 225 ; chamberlain. 224 ; de-
canus, decanus alter, altus. 224 ;
feretrarius, 224 ; granator, 225 ;
hostillarius, 224 ; master of the
Galilee. 224 ; master of the infir-
mary, 224 ; master of the cell of
Jarrow, 224 ; official of the chan-
cery and almonry, 225 ; precentor,
225 ; prior. 10, 55, 79 (2), 85, 176 ;
prior Thomas, 79 (3) ; prior, John
Wessyngton. 146. 222, 223 ; prior's
chaplain, 225 ; prior's seneschal,
224 : Michael. 44 ; tercius prior, 224 ;
refectorer, 225 ; sacrist, 46, 223 ;
homines segreste, 46 ; servientes
ecclesie. 56 : subprior, 56 ; see also
Crossgate. Elvet, Framwellgate,
Kingesgate, Milburne.Ruley, Suter-
pethe ; archdeacon, 46 ; see Rob,

INDEX.

Gilbert. John Kcmpe, archbishop
of York. Rob. Rolleston, Will.
Scrope : Emericus filius archi-
diaconi. 32 ; archdeacon's official,
see Will. Willowston ; ballivi, 26.
57 : ballivus. see Henry de Neketon ;
bishop, 192A* (2), 232/i, 233». 236«. ;
Anthony Bek, 110 ; Men. de Farn-
ham, 1, 84 ; Thos. Langley. 145, 146.
221 », 227 ; Ric. de Marisco, 48, 70.
112/i: Thos. Nevill, 221/t; Ric.
Pauper, 16, 25. 33, 34,36, 49, 73, 80.
112/i ; Phil, de Pictavia, 16 ; Walter
Skirlawe, 301 ; burgenses, 56 ; chap-
ter visitation, 192n ; coronator, nee
Silvester of Darlington; custosepis-
copatus, see Henry de Neketon ;
seneschal, sec Sir Will. deMidilton ;
sheriff, see Ric. de Bereville, Sil-
vester of Darlington ; Simon ser-
viens episcopi, 24 ; servientes, 56 ;
churches in the bishop's gift. 18.
33, 46, 54, 69 ; Gilbert the butcher
of, son of Humphrey, 111 ; Hugo
pistor de, 54 ; John senior, monk
of Durham, 223 ; John son of John
de, 109, 110 ; Lece de, 55 ; Ric. de,
117 ; Will., monk of Durham. 223
Dyer, tinctor, Dier, Ric., 193 ; Walter,
193/i; Will., Ill

E

Eadmund de Corneshou, 70

Eagle, preceptor of, 211 n

Eakring, Ekeryng', Eykering', 169,
259

Easby, 206, 276 ; abbey, St. Agatha's,
145, 195, 205, 206. 206n (3), 210,
280

Easington, Esigton, Esingtone. Es-
singtone (Cleveland), 190, 264 ;
(Durham). 30,34, 232 ; veredictum,
22, 34 ; warda, 62 ; Alicia de, 27 ;
Thos. de, 22 ; (Holderness), 181, 268

Easingwold, Esyngwald, 188, 262,
299 ; Rob., 296

East Riding archdeaconry, 139, 177—
186, 265 — 269 ; archdeacon, see
Henry Bo wet, archdeacon of Rich-
mond, Ric. Tone, Will. Waltham

Eastrington. Estrington', 176

Eastwood, Estwayt, Estwhayt, 173,

Ebchester. Ebecestre, Hebchestr' 67,

233 ; Will., 223
Eboracum. see York
Ecclesfield. Ecclesfeld, 163, 252
Eclescliue, see Egglescliffe
Eda de West Heri^tone. 30

Ede, Thos. fil., 26r 2?

Eden. Edene, 2 (2) ; mora de, 2 ;
Castle, Castelden, 1. 232 ; John. 226 ;
Nigellusde,89 ; Will.. 225 ; Ysouda
uxor Walt. fil. Synd de. 89

Edington (Wilts). 293

Edlingham, 237

Edlington, 164, 253

Edmondbyers, Edmundberes, Edmun-
bire, 233 ; Andreas de, 68

Edmonsley, Edmannesleye, Edeman-
leye, 67 ; John de, 117

Edmundeuille, see Amundeville

Edofa de Bolum. 82

Edolf de Vrpath, 30

Edolfa de Lunesake, 50

Edston, Eddeston', 191, 265

Edwardi, Andreas fil., 80

Edwinstow, Edynstow, Vddyngstowe,
169, 258

Egglescliffe, Ecclescliue, Eggelechiue,
Eggescliue, Egglescliue, Egglscliue,
Eglescliue, 76 (2) ; campus de, 3 (2) ;
ecclesia de, 84 ; manerium de, 16 ;
villata de, 77, 86 ; Matilda de,
Emma soror ejus, 78 ; Rob. de, 78 :
Rog. auceps de, 75 ; Walt, de, 14. 43.
49, 68, 96, 99 ; Walt, de, clericus,
76 (2), 78, 96, 99

Egglestone, Eggeleston, Eglestane,
Egleston, Eglestone, Eglistone
(Durham), villata de, 5 ; Adam fil.
Gamelli, Gemelli, de, 5, 9. 10 ; John,
lord of, 117 : Rog. fil. Galfridi de,
10 ; Thomas de, 1 ; Walterus filius
Hugonis de, 5, 9, 10 ; Will. de. cleri-
cus, 85 ; (Yorks), abbot, 78 ; abbey,
145, 204%. 205/i (2), 206, 210, 216%,
217, 218, 280

Eglingham, 237

Egmanton, 169, 258

Egremont, Egremond', 209. 280

Eldone, 44

Elfini, Stephanus fil., 79

Elgy, Matilda filia, 18 ; de Rugemund,
41

Eligtone, Ric. de, 66

Elizabeth, Elizabet, nxor Nich. de
Farndone, 77, 84

Elkesley, 169. 258

Ella, Kirk. Eluelay. 182, 269

Ellerker, 176/t

Ellerton (E. R.). 185, 267 ; priory. 140,
185, 186. 275 .

Ellingham, Elyngham, 238

Ellington, 116n : Rob. son of John
de, 117

Elloughton, Elughton', 269

Elmedene, 14

Elsdon, Elmesden', 236

Elshaw. Elleshaw, Elyshaw, 236

INDEX.

313

Elstob, Elestob, Ellestob, Ellestobe,

85 ; Joh. de, Job. homo Phil, de,

Phil, de, Will, de, 84
Elston, Eyleston', 170, 259
Elton (Durham), Elleton. 233 ; Gilb.

fil. Regin de, Rog. prepositus de,

Walt. fil. Will, de, 3 ; (Notts), 173,

260

Elugh, Rob., 95
Elvet, Eleuete, Eluete, villata, 24 ;

pons, 57 ; veredictum burgi, 60 ;

John de. 112
Elvington^ 187, 262
Elwaldus Casi, 17
Elwick, Ellewyke, Elwice. Elwik, 2,

232; Gilbert de, 118
Ely, administrator of the see. 238n
Elye, Will, fil., 43 (2), 44
Embleton, Embildon, Emyldon, 237 ;

John, 223 ; John de, 118
Emley, Emlay, 160, 250
Emma, Ric. fil. ejus, 29
Engelisse de Yvedall. Ill
Engelyas Mouhaut, 117
Enocha, 5

J^piscopi, Simon serviens, 24
Epperstone, Ebreston1, Ebriston',

173, 261
Epplingdene, Applingdene, Rad. de,

94, 112; Isoudade, 32
Erchinbaud, Erchembaud, Orchem-

baud, Ric., 78, 91, 95—97, 102;

Nich. socius suus, 95—97
Erg-chaw, Rob.. 225
Erington, Hugh de, 115
Ernis, Ric. son of, 122, 123 ; Piscator,

19

Escrick', Eskcrik', 187, 262
Escum, Petronilla de, Rog. fil. Will.

de. Will. fil. Normanni de, 39
Eshr Esche, Esse, Essh, Hesse, Agneta

uxor Rog. de, 21 ; John son of

Walter de, 113 ; Roger de, 21, 113 ;

Roger the tailor of, 113 ; Roger fil.

Ade de, 52 ; Symon de, 118
Esholt priory, Esshold', 249, 256w
Eshot, Esshet'. Isabella dau. of Ed-
mund de, 119
Eslington, 115 ; John de, 115 ; John

de, knt., 117 ; Utred de, 116
Espham, Thos., 2l2n
Essewelle, see Hessewelle
Estre, Lestre, Will, de, Alicia uxor

ejus, 88, 96, 98, 99
Etheracres, 23
Etton, 184, 275
Ku. Henry de, 85
Eudo, Eudonis. Agnes widow of. Ric.

and Roger sons of, 122 ; Simon fil.,

45
Euenewde, Ewenwode, 39. 48

Everingham, 185, 275
Kvirvvike. Angnes de, 123
Everton. 168«
Exenhale, *ee Oxenhale
Exeter archdeaconry. 301
Exteldesham, sc-c Hexham
Extraneus Will., 12 ; quidam, 61

Faber. Elias, 116 ; Eustachius, 36 ;

Henry, 57 ; John, 54 ; Will.. 24, 44
Fabri. Thos. fil. Alani, 83
Fairfax, Mr. Brian, 195, 294 ; John.

Thos. (Walton), Will., 294
Fairhare, Farehayr, Thos., 119, 120
Falufeld, Ric. de, 115
Farndon, Fardune, Faredon, Faren-

done, Farnedon prebend (Lincoln),

170, 259, 295 ; Nich. de, 10, 48, 77—

79 ; Elizabeth uxor ejus, 77, 79, 84
Farnham, 203. 215—217, 277
Faules, Hugo de, 43
Fautur, Will, le, 31
Featherstone, Fetherstone, Fethir-

ston', 162, 250

Feliskirk, Felicekirke. 189, 263
Felkington, Felkindon, Felkingdon,

117

Felkirk, 163. 252
Felley priory. 139, 173/t, 174, 261
Felter. Will., dean of York, 137, 148,

149 (2), 246—248, 255—257, 262,

265. 269,271,291—295
Felton, 237

Felun, G-ilb. fil. Walter le, 31
Fenton prebend (York). 154rt, 238,

239: (Northumberland), 238; Mr.

John de, 289
Fermur, Walter, 28
Fernaccre, Will, de, 71
Ferns (Ireland), cathedral. 301 ; pre-
bends, Slecultre, Whitechurch, 302
Ferriby. Fereby, Feryby, North, 149,

183, 269 ; priory, 140, 183, 186 :

Henry, 224
Fery. Ferie, Ferye, 44 ; Alanus Gris

de, 44 ; Andrew de, 109 ; Galfridus

de, 75 ; Matilda filia Alani de, 44 ;

Peter de, 109
Feugers, Will, de, 10
Fewston, Foiston', Fuston', 157, 249
Figes, Will., 225
Filloyl, Hugo, 1
Filey, Fyuelay, 179, 266
Fin, Beatrix filia Ade, 45
Finchale. Funkhall', 64 : priory,

161/i, 232/i ; prior, 89 ; Will. Barry,

223
Fingall, Fyngale, 204, 218, 276

314

INDEX.

Finiiis, Stephen de. 67
Finningley, Fynynglay. 168. 257
Firmaculuni, 14
Fishlake. Fisshelake. 165. 253
Fitel, Vtting, 21

Fitzhugh. Sir Henry. 215» (2); Henry,
lord, 216»; Maude daughter of
Ralph, lord, 121rc

Flamborough. Flaynburgh. 180. 266
Flandrensis, Henr., 12 ; quidam, 17
Flandrispehe, Rad., 56
Fledburgh. 169, 259
Flintham, 171. 260
Flipping, Nich. gener Nicholae. 72
Florence, 246
Flute, Ric., 21
Foggathorpe, Folkerthorpe, Folke-

thorp, 122 ; Will, de, 122, 124 ;

Will, son of Godfrey de, 123
Folkenton. dom. Henr. de. 112
Folkton, Folketon, 179, 266
Fontem. Walterus ad. 61
Fora Hum. 122
Foreemu, 47

Ford, 109%, 237 ; Thos., 225
Forestarii, Hugo fil. Steph., 40
Forestarius, Martinus, 48 ; Rad., 61
Fosse Dike. 122. 123
Foston (N. R.), Fosseton', 187, 262 ;

-on-the- Wolds, 180. 267
Fountains abbey. 144. 145, 204, 210.

280
Foxholes, Foxhall, 179, 266, 294 ;

Will., 218

Fowler, canon J. T., 12S?i
Frameuille, dom. Nich. de, 85
Framlingham (Suffolk). 298
Framwellgate (Durham), HOn
Franceys, Alanus le, 26 : Hugo le, 61.

85 ; quidam garcio nomine, 23
Franteley. riuulus de. 52
Fraward, Ralf, 114
Freckenham (Suffolk), 291
Freeman, Freman. Geoff rey 123 (4) •

Rad. fil., 28 ; Sir Ric., 274
Freme, Joh., 20
Frhitsic dike, 123
Fridaythorpe prebend (York), 239,

281n

Fritheby, dom. Rad. de. 68
Frittenden (Kent). 294
Frodingham, Frothyngham. 180, 268
B'romundus de Seham, 23
Frosterle, Frosterleng. villata 40 •

Werri de. 40
Fryston, Monk, Friston', 180. 268

294
Fullo, Gilb., 52 ; Thos., 61 : Will le

50

Fullonis, Isouda soror Ric., 13
Furness, Furnes, abbey, 145. 209,

209-/t (2). 210, 279, 279*, 280;
deanery, 145. 202, 208, 279
Fylingdales, Fylyng, 264

G., Ric. fil., gee Ric. fil. Greg, de

Norton

Gadstanes. Gilb., 1
Gagot, Alicia filia Ade. Adam pater

suus, Agneta mater sua, 36
Gainford, Gaineford, Geineford. 6,

147, 233, 291 ; Alanus fil. Phil. de.

85; Cristiana de. Rog. fil. Nich!

dispensatoris de. 6
Galewa, Galewaht'. Galewaie, Galfri-

dus fil. H. de, 23 ; Henr. de, 22 ;

Thos. de, 8
Galfridi, Galf ridus fil.. 11. 60. 75. 112 ;

Walt. fil.. 28

Galilee, master of the. 224
Gallicus, Alanus. 31
Galloway, 125?i
Galoun, Hugh, 119, 120
Gamelli, Alanus homo. 30 : Matilda

filia Will, fil., 12 ; Sierith 'filia. 5
Gamfeld. 66
Gammyir, Thos., 229
Gamston, Gamylston'. 169. 258
Ganton, Galmeton', Gamelton', 179.

266

Garcia, 3, 12
Garcifer, 22
Gardinarius. Ric., Amabilla uxor

ejus. 42

Garford', 157, 249
Gargrave. 161, 254. 255
Garlestone, Rob. fil. Walt, de, 82
Garmandeway. Garmundeseye, Gar-

mundesway. Garmundewaye. Gar-

mundeweye, Rob. de. 24 ; Rog. de.

83, 85, 91, 101
Garrov. sec Carro
Garstang, Gayrestang', 208, 278
Garton, Gartone (Holderness). 181,

267 : on-the- Wolds. 180. 267 ; Steph.

de. 101

Gateforth, 297
Gaterer, Will.. 39
Gateshead. Gatisheued, Gattsheuid,

Gayteshed', Gaytesheued, ecclesia

IS. Marie, 18, 231 ; gardinum epis-

copi. 17; haya, 17, 18, 68: hospi-

tale S. Edmundi. 231 ; veredictum,

17—20 ; villa, 17, 66 ; villata 63,

magister hospicii, persona, 19 ;

John. 225, 225w

Gaunless, Gaweles. Gawenles. 39, 40
GawaA'e. Petrus de. Juliana uxor

ejus, 51

IKDEl.

Gaywood (Norf.), Gaywod'. prope

Lenneam. 297

Gedling, Gedelyng', 173, 261
Gedmoh'. Henr., 97, 98
Gerebertus de Hetone, 30
Geroldi, Rob. fil., 31
Gifforde, Galfridus de, 75
Giggleswick, 161, 25")
Gilbert, John, bishop of Hereford,

297 ; Rob., bishop of London, 294,

298

Gilberti, Rob. fil., 85 : Simon fil., 27
Gileami, Will, fil, 56'
Gildelad, Walt., 81
Gilet, Gyllet. Joh., 17. 45, 62 (2), 101
Gilewathe, Adam, 8
Gilians, 114

Gilla de Bringenhale, 15
Gillesland, Rob. de, 215
Gilleson. John, 119
Gilling (Ryedale), 191. 265, 294 ;

West, 277
Gisburne, 161, 254 ; John, 223 ; see

also Guisborough
Gistone, Ric. de, 85
Glanton, Glontedon, Glonton, lion;

Gilb. de, Rob. de, dom. Rob. de, 116
Glede, Adam, Gilbertus, 31
Gloucester, duke of, 147 ; prior and

convent of St. Oswald's, 193 ; Grey

Friars, 294
Gocelin fil. Tywe de luestan. 72 ;

Surteys, 118 ; de Westwic, 10 '
Goddard, Agnes dau. of Sir John,

Godefr', Henry, 117
Goderic de Neusum. 117
Goldsborough, 143, 203, 211 (3), 212,

2127t, 277 : Thos., 212» (2)
Gonalston', 173, 261
Gonnoc, see Gunnoc
Goodmanham,Gomondham. Gumund-

ham, 185, 275
Goole. 175%

Gosewyke, Rob. de, 114
Gosford (Cumberland), Gosseford'.

209, 280

Gospatricus de Midleton, 1
Gotham, 172, 260
Gower, John, 218
Goxhill, Gouxhill', 181, 268
Granby, Grarnby, 173, 260
Grant, Rog. le, 12
Grantham. Thos., 211, 212
Grasmere, Girsmer. Grismere, 207,

278
Gray, Sir Thos.. 127 ; Thos. de, 118 ;

SirThos.de, 110
Grayfot, Artur, 39
Graystanes, Greistanes, Greystane,

Hour. de; 98 ; Will. de. 43, 44, 112

Greasley, Griselay, Grysseley, 173,

261
Greatham, Gretam, Gretham, 2 (2),

88, 232 ; hospital, 228, 232%
Gregorii, Ric. fil., 90, 93
G rend on, see Grind on
Grenecroft, Alicia domina de, 69, 74
Grenewelle, Ranulf. de, Rog. de, 43
Grenewod, Thos., canon of York. 195,

295

Grete. Matilda. 20
Gretheuid, Galfridus fil. Will., 39
Grim, Walter, 51
Grindale prebend (York), 297
Grindon. Grendon, Grendune, 232 ;

West, 111 ; Costintinus de, 125 ;

Hugh de, 117 ; John son of Gilbert

de, 111
Gringley, Gryndley, Gryngelay, 168,

257

Grinton, Grenton', 204, 220, 276
Gris, Alanus, 44
Grove, Graue, Grofe, 169, 259 ; Sir

Henry, 273 ; Sir Thos.. 274
Guisborough. Gisburn, Giseburne,

190, 264; priory, 141, 17Sn, 182%,

1S4«, 189% (3), 190, 190% (3),

232% (2), 264 ; canon, Regin. de

Herterpol, 97, 98 ; prior, 27, 93 ;

Michael, prior, 97, 98 ; Elias paruus

de, 14 ; see also Gisburne
Guiseley, Gyselay, 160, 254
Gumare. 8tephanus. 30
Gunnerton, Gonerton, Gonwarton,

224% ; John, 224
Gunnoc, Gonnoc, Alicia filia, 30 ;

mater Cristiane, 52
Gurnay, Rad., 30
Gurnepein, Gurnepinge, Humfridus,

Matilda. Alicia mater ejus. 52

H

Hacfordh', 115

Hackington (Kent). 283.

Hackness, Hakenass', Haknas, 178,

266
Hadham, Hawisia de, Walter de, 92,

100 (2), 101
Hagarston, Hagardeston, John de,

Phil, de, 117
Haie, .fee Hay a
Hairun, see Herun
Hake, Joh., 19
lialdan Druri, 62
Hale. 210. 280
Halifax, 161, 250
Halkerbain. Alanus, 35
Halsham. Halsseham. 181%, 182, 268 ;

Sir John, 274

316

INDEX.

Haltemprice, Hautempris', priory,

140, 178/i, lS2n, 183. 186
Halton (Durham), 66 ; (Lane.), 279
Haltwhistle, Havvt.wysell', 236
Halutone, Halwetone, see Haughton-

le-Skerne

Halytreholm'. Sir Thos., 274
Hambald, Mr.' Rob., 272, 274
Hambledon (Bucks). 300
Hamel de Hert, 10
Hamerton. Kirk. 204, 215, 217 (2),

218. 277

Harnpole priory, 164?*, 253, 256/i
Hampsthwaite, Hamthwait, 277
Hampton Episcopi prebend (Here-
ford), 193 ; Hugo de, 44
Hamstelis, Hamstele, 52 : Adam fil.
Jordani de, 71 ; Elyas molendi-
narius de, 52

Hamsterley, Hampsterle, Hamsterle.
Hamsterlege, Hansterlege, 34 ;
campus, villata. 41 : Hueloc de,
Syerithe uxor ejus, 41 ; Joh. de,
71 ; Rob. fil. Will, de, 50
Hanaker, Petrus. 44
Hansard, Joh., 49 ; Gilbert, pater ejus,

48 ; Rog., 34
Hanton, Jose de, 123
Harbotell', Herbotyll, 68 ; Will, son

of Rob., 120

Hareholme, Adam de, 113
Harestone. 68

Harewood, Harewude, Harwod, Her-
wod (Durham), 86 ; (Yorks), 158,
249, 255

Harom', John, 225
Harphile, Jacobus de, 44
Harpin, Juliana relicta Will., 32 ;

Ric., 85

Harrington, 210, 279
Harrope, Cristiana de, Will, de, 33
Harswell, Horsenwell, 185
Hart, Hert. Herte, 2, 232 ; Hugo fil.
Hamel de, 10 ; Regin. de, 91, 93. 97,
98 ; Rob. de, 31 : Ysouda uxor
Benedicti de, 90, 93
Hartburn, Hertburn', Herteburne,

236 ; Symon fil. Regin. de, 85
Harthill, Herthill', 163, 253 ; deanery.

140, 149, 182.

Hartlepool, Hertepol, Herterpol,
Hertilpole, 11, 90. 93 (2), 232 ;
libertates burgi de. 105 ; passagium,
2; villata, 13; veredictmn, 11— 14 ;
hauenatores, 1 1 ; Adam de, 31 ;
Henr. cooperar de, 11; Regin.,
clericus de, 91, 97, 98; Regin..
canon of Guisborough, 97, 98; !
Will. fil. Hug. de, 13; Will. fil.
Ysewde de, 93 ; Ysewda uxor Bene-
dicti de, 90, 93

Hartone, Ric. de, 11

Harworth, Herworth, 168, 257

Hasard, Will., 85

Hasstike, Will., 123

Hastings, Hollington prebend, 297

Haswell, -we Hessewelle

Hatfield, Haytfeld, 138 (2), 164, 253

Hathering, Nich., 70

Hatholf de Sunderland. 53

Hatte, Rog.; 35; Will..' 36

Hauden, see Howden

Hauenatores. 11

Haughtoii-le-Skerne, Halutone, Hal-
wetone, Houghton', 36, 46, 48, 233 ;
molendinum, 36 ; pons. 35 ; Bene-
dictus de, 48 ; Bernardus de. 36

Haule, Hawle, Thos., 297

Hawksworth, Hokesworth, 17J, 260

Hauxwell, Hawkeswell', 204, 218, 276

Hawkshead, Haukeshed', 279

Hatvnby, Halneby, 264

Hawton, Howton', 170, 259

Haxey, Thos., canon of York. 195,
295, 298, 299, 301

Haya, Haie, Peter de, knt.. 122, 123
(2), 124 ; Ric. de le, 123 ; Ric. son
of Sir Peter de, 122; Ric. son of
Philip de, 124; Mr. Will, de la,
79

Hayden, John, clerk of, 115

Hayeforht. Walter de, 47

Hayrun, see Heron

Haysam, 123

Haysende. Rob. de. 116

Hay ton (Notts), Hatone, 168 ; Urn-
f ridus de, 75

Headon, Hedon', 169, 259

Healaugh, Helagh, 158. 248; Park
priory. 158, 158%, 166, 174. 186, 191,
193, 210, 248, 256

Healey field, Heley, 114

Heaton, Kirk, Heton', 162. 250

Heborm, 63

Hebson', Will., 220

Heddon, 235

Hedon, 268

Hedlum, John de, 50

Hedwardus de Seuely, 10

Heighington, Heghyngtoir, 233

Helewis, Agneta filia Thome fil., 47

Hellebule, John, 35
Helmsley. Helmeslay, 191, 265 ; Over,
Upper, Emelsay, Hemelsay. 187, 262

Heltone, si-c Hilton
Hemingbrough, Hemingburgh, 176
Hemsworth, Hymmesworth. 138, 164,

254
Henrici, Will, fil., Emma uxor ejus, 4

Heppedone, Ric. fil. Galfridi de, 32

Heppiscotes, Will. de. 118
Herbotyll, see Harbotell'

INDEX.

317

Hereford, chancellorship. 297 : pre-
bends. Hampton Episcopi, 193 ;
Moreton parva. 292 ; Wellington.
28 1 n : bishop. John Gilbert, 297 :
Thos. Polton. 143 : Thos. Spofford,
299 : canon. John Catryk, 292 : Ric.
Dyer. 193
Heriz. Will, de, 88
Herl. Johnde. Ill
Herlethorpe, Ric. de, 122. 121 ; Will.

de, 122
Herleye. Herlesheye. Will, de, 89. 92,

93

Heron, Hairun, Hayrun, Heirun.
Heroun, Herun. Heyrun. arms.
1 19» ; Cecily wife of Walter, 109/i ;
Sir John, knt.. 118. 119 ; Jordanus.
75 ; dom. Jordanus, 75, 112 ; Lady
Mary, 109 ; Odard. 125% : Sir Odenel,
109 ; Roger, knt., 1 19 ; Sibil, 15 ; W.,
103 ; Walter son of Sir Will., 109 ;
Will., 14, 79 ; Sir Will., 109», 116
Herrington. Herigtone, Herington,
110; Auicia de, 33 ; West, marie-
rum, 30 ; Eda filia Matilde de. 30
Herrison'. Thos., 216
Hers, Adam. 116
Hert, see Hart.
Heslarton, 178, 266
Hesledon, Monk, Heseldene. Hesil-
den', 232 : Agneta de. Gilbert de.
30 ; Rob. fil. Ric. de, 28
Hesse, acr Esh

Hessewelle, Essewelle, 25 ; Alicia filia

Regin. de. 25 ; Galfridus de, 29 ;

Walter de, 24 ; Will, de, 10, 22, 60,

101, 103, 112

Hessle. Hesill', 182, 268; Sir John,

274

Hetlum. John de. 89
Heton. Hetone, Simon fil. Gereberti
de. 30 ; Wido de, 31 ; see also
Heaton. Kirk
Hettorie, Matilda de. 34
Heversham. Euersham, 207, 278. 291,

296

Heworfch (Durham). Heiwrthe,
Hewrht, Hewrothe, Hewrthe,
Heyworthe. Heywothe, Heywrothe.
manerium, 58. 59 ; molendinum,
37 : lord of, 111 ; Agneta uxor Joh.
de. 64 ; Bertram. Berthramus de,
42, 58, 59. 97 : Cecilia mater Bert-
ram de, 59 : Joh. de, 64 ; Lauren-
cius de, Xich. de, Walter de. 42 ;
Will, sutor de, Alicia uxor ejus, 37
Hexham, Exteldesham. Hexelsham.
Hexhildesham. Hextildesham, 17 ;
priory, 160. 191. 236/t (4) ; bailiff.
115; prior. 10, 85: Thos., junior,
224/« ; Thos., senior, 224

Hexhamshire, 137

Heynings priory (Line.). 159n

Heyopthele, 46

Heysham. Hesham. 207, 278, 295

Hickleton, Hikleton', 164, 252

Hickling. Hiklyng, Hykelyng, 172.

260

Hilston, 182%

Hilton (Durham), Heltone, 71, 232;
capellanus de, Elyas, 71 ; prepositus,
Joh., Sibilla neptis ejus. 62 ; Alex,
de, 32 ; Matilda de. 32, 34 ; Hob. fil.
Alex, de, 32
Hindeley, Rob. de, 6
Hinderwell, Hildewell', 190, 264
Hoc, Tuniioc, 71
Hochonson', John, 217. 218
Hockerton, Hockerton', Hokirton, 1 70

259

Hocton, see Houghton
Hoker, Hocer, Matilda fil. Rob., 18 :

Rog., 19

Hokesworth, see Hawksworth
Holand, set Hoyland
Holderness deanery, 140, 149, 180
Hollinside, Holinside. Rad. de. 101,

103 ; Ric.de, 103

Holm, Holme. Howrn', Pierrepoint,
171, 260; -on-Spaldingmore, 185,
275 : -on-the- Wolds, 184. 275 ;
Hugo de, 1 ; Sir Will.. 274
Holmeset, Adam de, 117
Holmpton, 182 (2)
Holtby, 176

Holum. Cristiana uxor Joh. de, 32 ;
Galfridus de. 31 ; Ymania uxor
Gilb. de, 32
Homel, Adam. 1
Hook. 175»
Hooton Pagnell. Hoton Panel 1, 164,

254 ; Robert, 163. 252
Hopeburne, 115
Hoppere, Will, le, 78
Hopyn, Rob., 120

Hornby. Horneby (Lane.), 207. 299 ;
priory, 145, 207, 210 ; (Northaller-
ton). 189. 264 ; Gilbert de, 12
HorneclifF, John de, 127
Hornsea, Hornese, 181, 267
Horsley, Horselay, Long. 236 ; Ric.

de, 119

Horton (Bucks), 302 ; Rob., 214
Hospitallers, 158%, 163/z, 189», 205%.
211%, 212. 2l6n,277n; prior, Will'.
Hulles, 211%
Hostiarius, Simon, 35
Hotham, 183, 275

Hoton. Hotton. see Hooton, Hough-
ton. Hutton

Hou, Hooton, Thomas del, 66
Houda de Plausewrth, 69

318

INDEX.

Houeton, Thomas de, 124

Houghton. Hoctou, Hoghton, Hoton,
Hotton, Houton, 85; -le-Side, 7;
-le-Spring, 22, 36, 34, 232 ; Alanus
fil. Ric. de, 25. L'<; ; Eua uxor Wy-
donis de, 32 ; Gilb. de, 28 ; Hamo
de, 31 : Job. fil. Thome de. 7 ;
Thos. ad ecclesiam de. 7 ; Umt'ri-
dus de, 85 ; Will. fil. Simonis de,
30; Wydode, 27, 31. 103

Hoveringham, 173. 2(51

Hovirigham, 191, 265 ; John, 211—
213

Howden, Hauden, Houeden, 138, 139,
175, 176, 275 ; spirituality, 139.
149, 175, 275 ; Mr. John de. 123 ;
Stephen de, 223, 227

Howdenshire. 138, 139, 149

Hoy land, Holand, 162, 252

Hubert!, Will, fil., 39

Hucknall Torkard, Hukenall'. Huk-
nalF, 173, 174, 261 ; Sir Thos., 274

Huctredus Stirk, 19

Huddersfield, Hodresfeld, 162. 250

Huddo molendinarius, 51

Hudson, Mr. A. V., 151 ; Thos., 119

Hueloc de Hamsterle, 41

Huggate, Hugate. 185. 267 ; Roger
de, 122, 123

Hugh, Hugonis, Gilbert, fil., 31 ; Hugo
fil., 55 : Rad. fil., 26, 31 ; Thos.
son of Will, son of, 113

Hulfe. Randulfus fil., 35

Hull, 140, 182, 268; Charterhouse,
180%, 183»

Hulles. Will., 211«

Humaze, Will, de, 113

Humbleton, Homildon, 118, 181, 268

Hund, Will., 26 ; Rad. frater ejus,
Hamo serviens ejus, 27

Hunestaneswrthe, Will, de, 68

Hunewic, 45

Hunmanby, Hundmanby. Hunde-
manby, 140, 179, 179?>. 266

Hunsingore. 211, 212, 277

Huntewine, Helewisia filia, 20

Huntingdon, St. Margaret's hospital.
297

Huntington, 188, 262

Huricus Janitor, 79

Hurworth, Hortheworthe, Hur-
dewrch, Hurteworthe, Hurtewrthe,
Hurthewith, Hurtheworthe, Hur-
thewurte. Hurthworth, Hurtwith.
4, 9, 10, 16, 77, 80, 88 (2), 91, 94^
233 ; villata, 77 ; dominus Briamis
fil. Alani de, 27 ; Hamo serviens
ejus, 25 ; Leuenard de, 25—27

Husthwaite prebend (York), 292 (3)

Huteredus Rede, 72

Huttelege, Hugo fil. Ric. de, 50

I Hutting de Kempel, 38; fil. Job.
Blake, 74 ; fil. Ric. molendinarii,
47 ; ace also Utting

| Hutton, Hoton', Bushell, Bussell',
190,264; Cranswick, Orauncewik',
184, 267 ; Rudby, *ee Rudby ; She-
riff, Hoton Vic'. Scirehoton, 188,
262 ; Rob. fil. Galfridi de, 41

Ilderton, 237 ; Thos., 120
Ilkley, Ilkelay, Ilklay, 160, 255
Imania de Holum. 32 ; uxor Walt.

Vituli, 35
Ingleby, Ingelby, Greenhow, 189,

263 ; Arncliffe, 189, 263 ; Ric., 215
Inglys, Anglicus, Henry le, 117 ;

Joh.. 125
Ingram, Angreham, Ingeram, In-

grame, 237 ; Sir Thos., 274 ; Mo-

rantus, 8
Insula, Cecily dau. of John de, Sir

Rob. de (Chipchase), 109w; Sir

Walter, 109
Irays, John le, 47
Ireland, 301
Irford, Peter, 291
Irnham (Line.), 300
Irton, 209, 280
Ivestone, luestan, 72 ; Gocelinus fil.

Tywe de, 72
Ivonis. Ada uxor, 82

Jacobus de Harphile. 44

Janitor, Huricus, 79 ; Jordanus, 103,

104 ; Thomas. 64
Javum, nee Yarm
Jarrow, Javow. 231 ; cell of. 224,

231n
Jervaulx abbey. 144, 145, 204, 204«,

205^, 280 ; abbot, Peter Snape,

218»
Joelby, Johelby. Rog. fil. Will, de, 78,

79, 92

Joggolfe, Adam, 68
Johannes rex, 34
Johannis, Joh. fil., 80 ; Margeria

filia, 12
Joie, Rob.. 36
Joileni, Rob. homo, 9
Jose de Hantun. 123
Juliana, 28
Justices, see Ric. Duket, Gilbert de

Elleuyke, Galfridus films Galfridi,

Thos. Gray, Will, de Heppiscotes.

Jordanus Heyrun, Rob. fil. Mel-

T1STDEX.

319

dredi, Joh. de Rumeseie. Rob. de
Tughall

Kanze, Rob.. 61

Kar . . .. Thos. fil., 2S

Kaunres, .w Carres

Kaym'. Kayn, Agnes, 214 ; Job., 211.

212
Keeling, Nun, Kyllyng, ISO. 268 ;

priory, 180/i

Keighley, Kyghlay, 101. 255
Kele, Heiiricus, 38
Kelham, Keline. Kellom. 1 70, 259
Kellet. 279

Kellington, Kelyngton', 159, 251
Kelloe, Kellawe, KelloAV, 24, 34, 225,

282 ; parua villata de, 34 : Elyas de,

Cecilia mater ejus, 9A ; Will., 225
Keinpe. John, archbishop of York,

136, 145, 150, 292, 293, 296, 300;

visitation. 201 — 280 ; receiver, see

John Marshall ; John, archb. of

Canterbury, 136 ; Thos.. archdea-
con of Richmond, 150
Kempel. molendarium de, Hutting.

de, 38
Kendal. Kyrkby in Kendale, 207,278,

295 ; ' deanery, 150, 202. 206 : Ric.,

215
Ker. Kerre, Joh., 26. 27, 31 ; Gilb.,

Thos. fratres ejus, 31 ; Ric. fil.

Rob.. 31 ; Rob., 80 ; Will., 99
Kettlewell. Ketilwell', 161, 255
Kexby. John, chancellor of York,

148/246, 254, 257, 262, 292, 295.

2!MJ ; Will., precentor of York, 296
Keyingham. Cayngham, 182. 268
Keynsham (Somerset), 294 : abbey.

294. 295

Keyworth, Keworth'. 172. 260
Kidellus, l!>
Kikelot. 12
Kildale. 189. 263
Kilcolumb (Kilkenny). 301
Kildwick. Kyldewyk', Kildwik', 16J,

255

Kilnsea, Kylnese, 182, 268
Kilnwick-on-the- Wolds. Kyllyng-

wyk'. 184. 267
Kilvington (Notts). 170. 259 ; South.

189, 26:5
Kimberley, 173
Kimbhot. Kimhot. Rad.. 66
Kimblesworth, Kuneleswrthe, Kunel-

wrohe, Kunelwrth. Kyrnlesworth.

67. 72, 73, 231

King, Keng, Ralf, Will., 116
Kingesgate, 54

Kinoulton, Kynalton', 172

Kippax, Kypax, 157, 249

Kippinc, Ric., 70

Kirkburn, Burne, 140, 184, 267

Kirkby, Kirkeby, in Asshefeld', 174,
261; (Cleveland). 189, 264; Fleet-
ham, 205. 276 ; Grindalythe, in
G-rendale, Grendalith', 178, 265 ;
Hill, super moram. 203, 211. 211%,
277 ; Irelith', 279 ; Kendal, see
Kendal; Knoll', 189, 263; Lons-
dale, 207. 278 ; Malham, in Ma-
logh', 161, 255 : Malsard, Kirkemi
Malesard, Ric. de, 43 ; Misperton,

191, 265 ; Moreside, 191, 265 ; Over-
blow, Ouerblawers. Ouerblows, 158,
249; Ravens worth, 206, 277: South,
163, 254 ; Underdale, in Hundal-
dale, 178, 265 ; Wiske, 206. 277 ;
Will., 225

Kirkdale, 191, 265

Kirkeleth, 114

Kirkham priory, 139, 177 (2). 178»

(3), 180%, 186, 187, 191%, 237?i, 265 ;

(Lane.), 145, 208, 278
Kirkharle. Kirkherll', 236
Kirkhaugh, 236
Kirkenny, Will, de, 117
Kirkleatham, Lethom, 1 90, 264
Kirklees priory, 162
Kirklington (Yorks). Kyrtlyngton,

218,276

Kirkpatrick, Sir Roger, 125%
Kirkstall abbey, 138. 157, 161%, 165,

166«, 174. 181% (2), 1827i(2), 186,

192, 210, 249; 256

Kirton, Kyrketon', 169, 258, 260 ;
Alan, 240% ; Mr. Edmund, 195

Knaresborough, 143, 211—213, 215,
299 ; prebend (York), 195, 295,
299 ; parish chaplain, Sir Will.,
214 ; St. Robert's priory. 143, 144,
157%, 203, 203w, 210, 216,216», 217,
277/i ; minister, Rob. Horton, 214 ;
vicar. John Burton, 211. 212

Knarisdale, 236

Kneesall, Knesale, 169, 259

Kneeton, Kneueton, 171. 260

Knitsley, Cnihley, Cnynhley, Will,
de, 112

Knyght, Sir Thos., 274

Laddele, Rog. de, 43
Lafool, Thos. de, 78
Lamberti, Lambertus garcio. 41 ;

Nich. fil.. Will, fil., 12
Lamberton, Rob. de, 114
Lumbton, Rob. de, 118

320

Lamley, 173, 261

Lamoslege, 70

Lamplogh', 209, 279

Lanark, 125ra

Lancaster. Loncestre, 208, 2<«

Lanchester, Langchestr'. Langecestre,

52, 06. 67. ')!>- 147. 233 ; Roger, 228
Langar, 171, 2(;o
Langeflat. le, 115
Langhope. 11">
Lang-ley, Langeley, Laiigheley. 70 ;

Elyas'de. 113: Margareta de, 52 ;

Matilda de, 55 ; Rad. de, 44 ; Will.

de, 113
Langtoft prebend (York), 291, 294,

297, 299
Langton. Langeton (E. R.), 178, 266 ;

(N. R.); 206, 277 ; Bernardus de,

98 ; John, canon of York, 238/i,

239ra ; Mr. Symon de, 76. 78, 92, 94

—96, 98, 102, 104 ; Thurchilda de,

Matilda filia ejus, 6
Lanker, Steph. de, Walt, de, 82
Lasceles, Laurencius de, 91, 97
Lascy, Rob. (Gateforth). 297
Lastingham, 191, 265
Late the waterga, Latwaterga, Job.,

70, 71 ; Ric. ejus, 51
Latona, dom. Will.de, 112
Laueroc, Juliana, 4
Laugharne (Carmarthen), 299
Laughton prebend (York), Laghton',

239, 240w. 28ln. 292
Laund priory (Leic.), 17 In
Laurentii, Berteramnus, Bertram,

Berteramnus fil., 91, 93. 98
Laweson, Thos., 224
Laxton, 169, 258, 295
Laytham. Lathom, 123 ; Roger son of

Eudo de, 122—124 ; Thos. son of

Peter de, 122, 123; Will, son of

Peter de, 123 (2), 124
Lazenby (Northallerton). 295
Leake (Yorks). Leek'. 146, 192, 228 (3),

263 ; East, 171 ; West, 171, 260
Leathley. Lethelay, 160, 254
Lece de Dunellmo, 55
Lecia de Wlsingham. 47
Leconfeld'. Lekynfeld'. 183, 184. 269
Ledere, Rad., 61
Ledsham, Ledesham. 157, 249
Leeds. Ledes. Ledez, 158. 249
Legh, swc Ley
Leicester, the Newarke, 161%. 17'Sn,

250»
Lenton. 173. 261 ; priory. 139. 172—

174. 261

Lepar'. Ric., 211, 212
Leprosorum, domus, 19
Lesbury, Lesbery, 237
Lescrop. ace Scrope

Lestre, *ee Estre

Letham, Rob. de, 123, 124

Leuenard de Hurdewrht, 25

Leuingthorpe, Lewynthopp. Will. de.
48, 85

Leven, 180, 269

Leverton, North, prebend (South-
well), 300 ; South, 168, 259

Levesham, 190, 264

Levington, Kirk, 189, 264

Lewes priory, 161?j, 163w, 164»

Lewin. Lewyn, Leuyn. Rob., 128 ;
Thos., 225 ; Thos. son of, 111

Ley. Legh, Leya. Leye, arms. 11 -in '
Ada wife of Phil, de, 124 ; John de
la, 1 14 ; John son of Sir Phil, de la,
125 ; Juliana wife of John son of
John de la, 118 ; Phil, de, de la, 31,
112, 117, 122—125; Rob. de la,
118

Leyot, Ric., 239ra

Lichfield, prebends : — Colwick, Dern-
ford, 299. Gaia Magna. 297 ; Offley,

299 ; Pipe Minor, Prees, 297 ; Tar-
vin, 295 ; Wellington, 28ln ; bis-
hop, Ric. le Scrope, 299

Ligna uxor Roberti, 29

Lilleburne, Will, de, knt., 119

Limpsfield (Surrey), 291

Linby, Lindeby, 174, 261

Lincoln, minster, 301 ; Ravenser
chantry, 301 ; prebends : — Bishop's
Norton, 295 ; Buckden. 28ln ; Carl-
ton Kyme, 298 ; North Clifton,
170» ; Farndon, 170n, 295 ; Laffordj

300 ; Leighton Buzzard, 281 n ;
Leighton Manor, 300 ; South Scarle.
170/A ; Stoke. 170w. 281 n ; St. Kathe-
rine's priory. 170n ; archdeacon,
Henry Bowet. 135 ; bishop, Will.
Alnwick, 135. 299; Ric. Flemyng.
135 (2), 136: Will. Gray. 135;
chancellor, 1 70 w. ; dean and chapter,
168«, 169#, I71n; precentor. Rob.
Burton, 234

Linemue, Elias de, 74

Liritingtone, Roger de, 24

Lintoii, Lintone-in-Craven, 161,255;

dom. Andreas de, 125 ; Roger de.

122w : Will. fil. Thorn, de, 42
Lintz. Linz, Linze. 63, 66 ; Andreas

de, 66 : Henr. fil. Ric. de, 63 ; Joh.

de, 60 ; Ric. fil. Sieriht de, 63 ;

Tunnoc de. 66
Litelchid, Rob.r 31
Lithegraines. Isouda de, Rob. de, 6
Littleborough, Litilburgh, 168. 258
Lockington, 184, 267
Loco fratris Goifridi, frater Bene-

dictus de. 63
Loftus, Loftehows. 264 ; Hill 214n

INDEX.

321

Londesborough, Lownesburgh', 185,
275

London, Lundon, St. Paul's, pre-
bends :— Chiswick. 297 ; Kentish
Town, 2Sln (2), 301 ; Mapesbury,
291 ; Oxgate. 2Sln, 292 ; Portpool,
298 ; Twyford, 300 ; St. Katherine's
by the Tower, 298 ; bishop : — Rob.
Gilbert. 295 ; John Kempe, 136,
293 ; Alex, mercator de, 65

Londoniis, Lundone, Lundoniis, Rob.
de, 125 ; Will, de, 19, 98

Lonsdale deanery, 150, 202, 207

Lowdham, 173, 261

Lowthorpe, 149, 180, 267

Ludworth, Ludeworth, Ludewrth, 28 ;
John de, 9 ; Walter de, 25, 33, 118

Lumbard, Hugh, 111

Lumley, Lumeleye, Lumpleye, Magna.
33 ; Math, de, 112 ; Will, de, 85

Lummedene. Adam de, 94

Lund, 184, 267

Lundone, Lundoniis, see London, Lon-
doniis

Lunesake, Edolfa de, 50

Lung, Joh.. 27 ; Thos., 22 ; Thos. fil.
Will, le, 31

Lutton, Roger de, 122—124

Luttrington, Alicia uxor Patricii
de, 8

Lyndessey. Adam de, 81

Lyham, Will., 224

Lytham, Lethom, 208, 223/4, 224/1 (2),
225ra, 278

Lythe, 190, 264

Mablethorpe St. Mary (Lines.), 298

Macke, Rob., 31

Maidoc. Agneta, 69

Maldesmedive, 44

Maldredus, Maldricus, see Meldredus

Maltby. Malteby, 163, 253

Mai ton, 149, 191, 265 ; priory, 141,

178/K2), 188, 18871 (3), 191, 191%,

192, 203%, 212, 265
Mamelard, Rob., 9
Man, Joh.. 34
Mandyer, Phil., 80
Maneriis, dom. Rob. de. 116
Manfield, Manefeld, 206, 277 : Joh.

fil. Elye de, 7 ; Mr. Will, de, 8
Manin, Eustace. 117
Manseil, Henr. le, 13
Mansfield, Maunsefeld, 174, 261 ;

Woodhouse. Mauncefeld Wodhows,

261

Mantel, Will., Cristiana mater ejus, 62
Mare. Hugo de la, 49 ; Rob, de la, 70

Mareschallus, Marscallus, Hugo, 79 ;

Rob., 85

Marewde, Merewude. 5, 82
Margarete, Joh. fil., 82 ; Will, fil., 40
Marham, manerium de, 105
Marisoo. Ric. de, 48, 70 ; Will, de, 46
Markham, Markeham, East. West,

169, 258

Marie rum, 28, 30
Marnham. Marneham, 170, 259
Marol, Rob. de, 85

Marrick, 206. 276 ; moniales, 276, 280
Marshall, Marchall. Marschall, canon

of York, John, canon of York, 137,

148 (2), 149. 246. 254, 257, 262, 271,

292, 296 ; canon of Wells, 226, 227 ;

registrar of the court of York. 145 ;

vicar general and custos of the

spirituality of Durham, 234, 235 ;

rector of Scruton, 218
Marske (Cleveland). Merske, 190, 264 ;

(Richmond), 206, 277
Marston, Merston', 158, 248, 294
Martini, Rob. fil., 75
Marton (Cleveland), 190, 264 ; (Cra-
ven), 161. 255 ; -on-the-Forest, 188,

262 ; cum Grafton, 203, 211—213,

277 ; priory, 140, 188, 188% (3). 262
Masham prebend (York), 281w, 292
Mason', Maysun. Hugo le. 80; Joh.,

212
Matilda puella, Agneta mater ejus,

27

Matilde, Rad. fil., 55
Mattersey. Mathersay, 168, 258 ;

priory, 139, 168, 168%, 174. 258
Matthew, Mathei, Mathewe. Adam

sou of. Alice his wife, 114 ; Sir

John, 274 ; Walt, fil., 6
May. Rogerus, Walt. fil. ejus, 53
Maym, Bernardus le, 85
Maysyng', John, 213
Meaux abbey, Melsa, 140, 180«, 181,

181%. 182«, 186, 268
Medilham, nee Middleham
Medomsley, Medmeslege, Medmislege,

Medmosle, 67, 72 ; Nocke de, 66
Meg filia militis, 18
Megre, Nich. le, 117
Melbourne, Meckelburne, 122
Meldon, 236
Meldredi, Maldredi, Maldrici, Rad.

fil., 64; Rob. fil., 1. 11, 21, 49.51,

56. 58 (2), 64, 75, 85
Melling, 207, 279
Melsonby, Melsamby, 206, 277
Melton-on-the-Hill, High, 164, 253;

Will., archb. of York, 141, 196, 197,

198, 200. 280—290
Memhermer, Meynhermer, Will, de,

10. 85

322

TtfDEX.

Menelle, Alan de, 117

Meiu'xtraUux, 57

Mercatorius, Godefridus. l.>

Mercenaries Hugo. K>

Mercer, Rob. le, 5

Merewude, «r Marewde

Merley, Adam der 32, 56 ; Rob. frater

Ade" de, ">ij
Merrington, Merigtone, Meryngton,

233 ; Media, 47
Messarius, Messer, 39 ; Hugo le, 48 ;

Will., 2 ; Sierith uxor, 5
Methelay, 162, 250
Meynhermer. sen Memhermer
Michilsike. 123
Middleham, Medilham, Midelham,

204, 276 ; Bishop, Bisshopton'

Medilton', 232 ; John, 225
Middlesbrough, Midelburgh', 189, 264
Middleton, Middelton, Midleton,

Mideltone. Hugo persona de, 10 ;

(Pickering Lythe), 191, 265 ; St.

George, 233 ; -in-Teesdale. 85, 98,

233 ; foresta de, 105 ; Tyas, 206, 277 ;

-on-the- Wolds. 184, 269 ; Joh. de,

10 ; Rob. fil. Gilb. de, Rob. molendi-

narius de, 5 ; Rob. fil. Gospatrici de.

1; Simon fil. Henr. de, 11 ; Thos.,

229 ; Thos. de, 85 ; Warinus de, 5 ;

Sir Will. de. Ill ; Will. fil. Gamelli

de. 5

Miderige, 38

Milburne (Durham), 110»
Militis, Meg filia, 18
Millom, 209, 280
Minto, Mimtow, Minuth, 125 (2), 126 ;

rector, see Dauid de Burghdon :

Rob. bercarius de, Wll. fil. Henr.

de, 127

Mirfeld', 162, 250
Misson, Misyn. Wisyn', 168, 257
Misterton, 168, 258
Mitford. Mitteford', 236
Mitton, 161, 255
Molendinarius, Molendinarii, Bene-

dictus, 83 ; Elyas, 52 ; Henr., 57 ;

Syerith filia Henr.. 28 ; Huddo. 51 :

Joh., 24 ; Bad., Regin., 24 ; Rob.,

25, 82 ; Agneta filia Rob., 25 ;

Steph.. 82; Will., 116
Moles, Molis, Nich. de, 17. 19, 32, 35.

38, 40, 48, 53, 62 (2) ; ballivus regis^

50
Monasteriis. dom. Rob. de, dom. Will.

de, 112

Monkbretton. sec Bretton. Monk
Monkton, Moor, 218, 248 ; Nun, 158,

216 (2), 217 ; priory. 158/i. 204%,

217, 280

Monte, Rob. de, 66
Monte Canensi, we Munchenesy

Moorby, Morby, Rob., Thos., 224

Moorsley, Moreslawe, 29

Moppe. luetta, 40

Mora, More, John, 241 ; Matilda de,

64 ; Matheus fil. Alani de la, 19
Morantus, 8

Morecambe bay, 145, 208?i
Moredon, Mordone, Thos. de. Margeria

uxor ejus, Will. fil. suus, 79 : Will.

de, junior, 111

Morehuse, major, 64 ; minor, 65
Morelleetone, Alicia de, Agnes mater

ejus, 80

Moresby, 210, 279
Morhil, mora de, 50 ; Seritha. Sieritha

longa de, 50
Morile, Rob. de, 66
Morpeth, Morpath', 147, 236
Morton, Moreton, Mortone. 114 ;

(Sadberge), 11, 16. 77 ; Tinmouth,

Tynnemuth. 112 ; Gerard de, 10 ;

Henr. fil. Ric. de, 11 ; John, 215 ;

Jolan de, 6 ; Peter son of John de,

114; Thos., 239'tt; Thos. de, 112;

see also Murton
Monhaut, Adam de, 117 ; Engelyas

relict of Hugh de, 11 In, 117 ; Mar-
garet her mother, 117
Moiint St. John, master of, 220w
Muncaster, Mulcastre, 209, 280
Munchenesy. Monchenese, Monte

Canensi, Monte Canesy, Mun-

chenese, Munchenesey. Warinus de,

Dyonisa, Dyonisia, uxor eius, 76,

78, 91, 94—97, 102, 104
Mundeuille. Damundeuille, Rad. de,

95—97

Munros, Walt, de, 14
Murton (Durham), Mortone, 28
Muscocampo, dom. Wll. de, 127
Musewelle, Walt, de, Will, de, 63
Muskham, North. 170, 259n ; prebend

(Southwell), 292 ; South, 259
Muston, 179, 266
Mustroil, Rob. de, 124
Mynskyp, Menskip, alias Dryffeld.

Thos., 272%, 294
Myton, Miton'. 88, 262

Nafferton, Naffreton. 180, 267

Narbonne, 281/i

Nassington', Mr. Phil, de, 289

Neasham, Neesham, Nesham, 4, 9, 10,
16, 77 ; Joh. fil. Thorn, de. Patricius
fil. Thorn, de, 3 ; Will. fil. Thorn,
de, 4

Neb, Nebe, Rad., 54

Nederton, 67 (2), 74 ; Rob. de, 51

I:NTDEX.

323

Neilson, Mr. George, 124%

Neketon, Noketon, Henr. de, 28. 37.
41. 48, 67 ; balliuus Dunolmi, 11 ;
custos episcopatus Dunelm., 1

Nelestone. Neellestone, Laurencius
fil. Vtting de. 80 ; Rob. de, 85

Nesbit, Nesebite Thorp, 10 ; Petrus
fil. Ade de, 10 ; Thomas, 224 ; Will,
prepositus de, 10

Nessvyll', Thomas, 224»

Netherton, see Nederton

Neuille, Nich. de, 46 ; Phil. de. 85

Neusom, Neusum, 117 ; Adam de.
112 ; G-oderic de, Isabel his wife,
Alan, John, his sons, 117; dom.
Rob. de, 60

Neuuayburn, 113

Newark, 139, 170 (2), 259 ; deanery.
139, 169

Newbald prebend (York), 239, 300

Newbo priory (Lines.), Io8n, 171%

Newburgh priory. 140, 188, 188% (2),
189», 191, 191rc, 203n (2), 211,211?*,
262

Newburn, 235

Newcastle, Nouum castrum. 62, 118.
147, 235 ; All Saints, St.'Andrewi
St. John, St. Nicholas, 235 ; pons,
17 ; burgesses, 18 ; bailiffs, mayor.
118

Newebigging, Neubiging, 16 ; Joh.
de, 16; Regin. de, 38

Newland, Neuland, Noua terra, 158w,
159% ; Ric. de, Rob. fil. Elye de.
43 ; Simon de, 7

Newminster abbey, 236?* (3)

Newstead priory, Nouus locus in
Shirwod', 139, 168n, 169/i, 173, 173%
(2), 174, 261

Newton, Neutone, Newetone (Dur-
ham), 65, 66, 69, 90, 110; Kirk,
237; Kynie, 159; Long, 3, 9, 10,
80, 84 ; -on-Ouse, 188, 262 ; West,
115 ; Wold, 179, 266 ; Edmund de,
88 : Elyanore uxor Eustachii de,
90/93 ; 'Gilb. de. 11 ; John, rector
of Birkby, 229 ; John, treasurer of
York, 301

Nicholai, Hawisia uxor, 16

Nigelli, Adam fil., 27 ; Alanus fil., 26 ;
Galfridus fil.. 101, 103 ; Godefridus
fil., 26, 27 ; Rob. frater ejus, 26 ;
Thomas fil., 23

Nigellus, 26

Niper, Emma. Ric., 22

Nobilis, Hugo, 61

Nocke de Medmeslege, 66

Noketon, see Neketon

Nordbenelandes, 122

Norfolk, archdeacon, see Adam of
Airmyn,

Norham, 79, 118, 238

Norhamshire, 110

Norman, Will., 6

Normanby, 191, 265

Normanni, Adam fil., 26, 27

Norman ton (Yorks). 162. 250 ; -on-
Soar, 172. 260 : -on-Trent, 1 69, 259 ;
prebend (Southwell), 296, 302

Northallerton, Aluerton'. Aluertone,
39, 141, 192, 263; hospital. 192.
]«>3, 263, 263w (2); Thomas de
Hospitali de, 38 : spirituality, 140,
192, 263

Xortheby, Norhiby. Nordhyby, Pagan,
122 ; Thos.. 123 (2)

Northumberland, 72; deeds, 114-r-122;
archdeaconry, 147, 234—238 ; arch-
deacon. 69 ; Will, clericus suus,
69 ; Rob. Burton, John Smeton his
official. 234 ; earl. Henry Percy,
1 14 ; sheriffs, see Will. Bowes, knt.,
Gwy chard de Charron, junior

Norton (Durham), 86, 232 ; college,
232% ; (E. R.), 178, 265 ; Tynemue.
Steph. de, 85 ; Ric. fil. Greg. de.
90,93

Norwell Palacehall prebend (South-
well), 292

Norwich, 2l2n ; diocese, 291 ; bishop,
see Will, of Airmyn, Will. Alnwick

Nostell, St. Oswald's priory, 138, 160,
162—164, 167. 237w, 250, 250w, 251,
253ra, 256

Notary public, see John Birell'. Will,
de Carleton', Will, de Colingham,
John Marshall

Nottingham, Notyngham, archdea-
conry, 137, 138, 140, 167—174,
257—262; churches:— St. Mary, 139,
172, 260; St. Nicholas, St. Peter,
172,261; deanery, 138, 172; hos-
pital, St. John's, 297 ; archdeacon,
John Notyngham, 297 ; John,
treasurer of York, 195, 296

Noua terra, see Newland

Nunburnholme, see Burnholme, Nun

Nuneman, Hugo, 40

Nunkeeling, see Keeling, Nun

Nunne, Alicia, 15

Nunnewic, Rob. de, 39

Nunnington, 191, 265

Nuthale, Nuthall', 173, 261

0

Oddington (Glouc.), 296
Ode, Petrus, 47
Oil. John, 224
Ollerton, Aluerton', 258
Olyfart, Will., 125*

T 2

324

INDEX.

Olyver, George, 229

Orchembaud. see Erchinbaud

Ord, Hord, Nich. de, Petrus de, 114

Ordsall, Ordesale, 1(59, 2.>8

Orgrauer, l»ob., 40

Orme. Rob. gener, Walt, f rater ejus,

44; Thos.. '21 5», 210
Ormesby, 1S9, 264
Orpington (Kent), 300, 301
Orston, 171, 259
Osberti, Thorn, fil., 31
Osmotherley, Osmunderlay, 192, 229,

230, 2(J3

Ossyngton', 259
Oswaldkirk, 191, 265
Oswrth, ace Us worth
Oter. Will., 81

Otley, Ottelay. 149, 160, 254; pecu-
liar, 138, 160

Otterington, Otryngton, North, 146,
229 (2), 263 ; South, 189, 263 ;
John, 229

Ottobonus Romanus, 33
Ottringham, Otryngham, 182, 268
Ouetone, see Owton
Ouseburn, Great. 203%. 204. 215—218.

277

Oustmor, 122
Overton, 188, 262
Ovingham, Ouingham, 52, 236 ; Uc-

tredus faber de, 53
Owston, Ouston', 165, 254
Owthorne, 181. 268
Owthorpe. Outhorp'. 172
Owton, Ouetone, 91. 92, 99, 100, 103

(2), 104

Oxenale, Kxenhale, Oxenhale. luetta
filia Thorn, de, 36 ; Ric. de, 77, 79,
88 (2), 89, 91. 94, 98-
Oxford, 225?i (2), 226^1 : colleges.
Balliol, 235/t ; Durham. 165%. 171%,
223/i, 260%: Merton, 235«, 237%,
294, 295 ; Oriel, 157 n
Oxton prebend (Southwell), 292

Padiham (Lane.), 296

Page, Will., 9, 25

Pannall', 157, 249

Papedy, Wymarcus. 117

Papilwyk'. 173, 262'

Parcarius, Humfridus, 41

Parco, Galf ridus fil. Galf ridi de. 45

Paris, Ric. de, 74

Parke, Ric., Ric. del. 119, 225

Passur, Elyas le, 65 ; Simon le, 2

Patricii. Patrick. John son of 116

Thorn, fil., 91 ; Will. fil.. 59
Patrington. 182. 26$

Paul, 182, 268

Paulin, Joh., 39 ; Will.. 17

Pauper. Will., 4

Pays. Rogerus, 4

Pecche, Warinus, 10

Peddere, Will., 18

Peins, Thomas, 1

Pellowe, 25

Pelton, 63

Fencer, Agneta de, 34

Peneson', Margareta. 214

Penistone, Penyston', 162, 252

Penkridge, Congreve prebend, 300

Pennington, Penyngton', Penyton',

209. 279
Perci, Percy, Henr. de, 10 ; see aUu

earl of Northumberland ; Will, de,

10
Perington, Perigtone, Adam de, 17.

66

Persebrige, 6
Petri, Will, fil., 4
Petrus probator, 51
Petworth honor (Sussex), 114
Philippa filia Johannis, 6
Philippi, Joh. fil.. 15, 31, 36, 40, 71
Pickemalle, Rob., 19
Pickering, Pykering, 295 ; Ric. de,

117

Pickhill, Pykall', 205. 276
Picktree, Piketre, 63, 65
Pigun. Ric., Ill
Piscator, Ernis, Patricius, 19
Pistor, Hugo, 54
Pittington, 231
Plawswrthe, Plausewrht, 63, 65 (2),

73 ; domina Houda de, 69 ; Ric.

pastor de, 73
Plesencia uxor Thorn, de Aslacby, 83 ;

filia Will. Britonis. 79
Plesseye, Rob. de, 18
Plumbarius. Gilb., Emma uxor ejus,

13 : Nich., Agnes uxor ejus, 87 ;

Thomas, 54
Plumtree, Plomptre, Plumptre, 172,

261

Plungar, Will.. 218
Pocklington,Poklyngton', 295 ; Will.,

chaplain of Knaresborough, 211,

212 ; Will., monk of Durham, 223
Poke, Tunnoc, 15
Pokerleye, Matilda filia Rob. lange

de, 68

Poket, Walt., 28
Polano, Will, de, 97
Pollard, Joh., 64 : Rob., 45 ; Will.. 43
Polton, Thos., dean of York. 143,

199/i

Ponsonby, Punsonby, 209, 280
Pontayse, 82
Ponte. Rog. de, 128

INDEX.

325

Pontefract. 148 (2). 159, 251 ; deanery,

138. 148, 159, 161; priory, 157//,

159. 162/i, 249/i. 251 ; St. Nicholas

hospital, 252/i
Pontelaiid, 235
Pontem, Joh. ad, 36
Pope :— Benedict XII., 245 : Eugenius

IV., 148, 244 ; Gregory X.. 245 ;

Innocent IV., 245; John XXII.,

2S2 ; John XXIII., 298
Poppleton, Popilton', 155, 244
Porcarius. Kad., 25
Port', Alexander. 117
Porter, Henry, 113
Postel, Matilda, Will., ss
Pott', Rann' son of Thos.. 128
Poulton-le-Fylde, Pulton', 208, 278
Pr ...... tor. G-alf ridus de, 52

Preciosa, 194w
Prendergest, Adam de. 117
Prendwick, Prendewic, lion; Hugh

de, Walter de, 116
Prentute, Agneta, 33
Prepositi, Rad. fil. Ric., 3
Prepositus, Elias, 61
Prescot (Lane.), 294
Prest, Preste, Gilbert, 127 ; Rob., 39 ;

Rog., 18 ; Will., 29
Preston-in-Amoundernes. 150, 208,

278 ; (Holderness), 268/t ; Long.

161, 255 ; Will, de, 37
Prikemodi, Rogerus, 48
Probator, Colmun, Petrus, 51 : Rob.,

83 ; Steph., see Steph. of Trimdon
Prophete. John, dean of York, 194/i
Prudfot, Ran., 50
Punder, Adam, 35 ; Henr.. 2
Putidei'ia, 46
Punderus, Petrus, 44
Pyburn, Pyburne, Joh. de, 112, 117

Quarrington, Queringdone, Que ring-
ton. 5 ; Will, de, 8

Quatremare, Ran.. 54

Queldryk', see Wheldrake

Queshou. Alanus de, 42 (2) ; Balde-
winus de, 48 ; Eudo de, Thorn, de, 42

Queteley, John de. 117

Quickatn, nee Whickham

Quyteworth, Sir Thos. de, 117

Qwenby, see Whenby

R

Raby, John dc, 117
Radcliffe-on-Soar, 172,260 ; -oil-Trent.
171, 260

Radford. 173, 261

Radulfi, Elias fil., 53 ; Will, fil., 35

Rainton (Durham), West, Reinigtone,
30, 223tt

Raket, Henry. 225

Hampton prebend (Southwell), 2i>5

Randulff, John, 113

Rauen, Matilda uxor Rog. fil., Walt,
fil. suus, 76

Raueiishil, Rob. seruiens de. 68

Eavenser chantry. Lincoln cathedral.
301 ; family, 300 ; John. 301 (2) ;
Ric., 300

Ravensworth, 218/&

Rawcliffe, 175;t

Rawmarsh. Romerssh', Rowmershe,
163. 252

Rede. Huteredus, 72

Redell', gee Ridel

Redleia, Thomas de, 1

Redmarshall, 233

Redmire, Rydemer, Cuthbert, abbot
of Coverham, 218/i

Refham, John de, 118

Reighton. Raghton', Ryghton', 179,
266

Rempston', Remmeston', 171, 260

Reshop, see Ryhope

Reste, 243

Retford, deanery, 139, 167; East.
West, 168, 258

Reveley. John de, 116

Rhavall', John, 225

Ribchestre, 208. 278

Ricardi, Alanus fil., 31, 81; Galfri-
dus fil., 26

Riccall prebend (York), 28 In

Richmond. 203, 206, 276 ; arch-
deaconry, 134, 137, 143, 201—221,
276 — 280 ; citra moras, 277 (2) ;
ultra moras, 278% ; deanery, 150,
202, 205 ; hospital of St. G-iles,
206 ; hospital of St. Nicholas, 206,
276 ; St. Martin's priory, 145, 206,
210 ; archdeacon, 205n. 278/j, 279,
279/i (2) : sue also Henry Bowet,
Thos. Dalby, Thos. Kempe, Stephen
le Scrope ; his official, 202

Ricknall, Rikenhale, 47 ; Galfridus
fil. Joh. carpentarii de, 37

Ridel. Redell', Cristiana dau. of Sir
Will., 116; Sir Rob., 117; Sir Will.,
127

Rievaulx, Riuall'. abbot and con-
vent, 76. 78, 192

Rihil, Gilb. de, Henr. de. 116

Rilley, Relley, 110

Rilliiigton. 178, 266

Ripley. Riplay, 144, 203, 215;(3), 216,
217, 277 ; Thomas, 215

Ripon, 150 ; altar, St. James, 293 ;

326

TN'DEX.

chantry St. Wilfrid, 21)3 ; hospital.

St. John, 292 ; St. Mary Magdalen,

297 ; prebend, xee Studley, Thorpe ;

chapter, 144, £03 ; John de, 225 :

Rob., 211

Risby (Suffolk), 2l'2n
Rise, 181, 2G9
Risseforthe, Margareta uxor sua Luce

de, 45

Riuair, we Rievaulx
Riueling. Bernardus, 10 ; luo, 5 :

Joh., 10

Roberti, Philippa filia Joh. fil., 6
Robet, Thomas, 17
Robynson. John son of John, 217
Roche abbey. 138, 164, 164/t, 165, 253,

257
Rochester, temporalities, 292, 293 ;

archdeacon, see Ric. Cordon alias

Brown ; bishop, see John Kempe
Rochop, see Rookhope
Rodburn', Will., 225
Rodeby, see Rudby
Roderham, see Rotherham
Roen, Beatrix de, 69
Rogeri, Gilb. fil., 10 ; Vlphus fil., 82 ;

Will, fil., 5
Rogerus garcio, 27
Rokeby, 205, 277
Rokesburc', Heimerus viccecomes de.

Gilbert frater ejus, Paulinus cle-

ricus de, 125

Rolleston, Rob., canon of York, pro-
vost of Beverley, 239^, 272, 273,

291 (2), 298
Romaldkirk, ecclesia S. Rumbaldi,

205, 277

Romanus quidam, 46 ; Ottobonus, 33
Romeyn, John le, archbishop of York,

141,280«.

Rongetone, see Rounton
Rookhope, Rochop, 72
Roos, Ross', 181, 268
Rossington, Rosyngton, 168, 257
Rothbury, Rothebery, 237 ; Walt, de,

125n, 127

Rotherfield Pippard (Oxon), 296
Rotherham, Roderham. 138. 162, 163,

252 ; Sir John, 274
Rothwell, Rothewell', 160, 250
Rouen, 136
Rounton, West, Rongetone, Runge-

stone, Rungetone, Runketon'. 192,

263 ; Joh. de, 2, 50 ; Nigellus de.

2, 10, 28, 29, 31, 60, 78, 94, 104

105 ; Will, de, 60
Routh, 181, 268
Rowley, Rowlay, 183, 269
Roystou, Ruston', 162, 252
Rudby, Rodeby, 141, 189. 263 ; Agneta

de, 20

Ruddiugton. Rodyngton', 139, 171,

172, 260

Rudstan. 180. 267
Ruffeit, Ric. fil. Will.. 64
Rufford (Yorks). Rughford', 158, 249,

252; abbey (Notts). 139. 163;t. 169,

174,257

Rugemund, Elgy de. Will, de, 41
Rulewde, Hugh de, 125
Ruley, 11 On; Will, de, 112
Ruineseie, Rumes', Joh. de, 34, 75, 83
Rumelys, Joh. de, 62
Rungetone. ace Rounton
Russel, Russele, Rad., 89, 93
Rydelunge, Cristiana de, 82
Ryedale deanery, 141, 190
Ryhope, Reshop, 53
Ryle, 120/i ; Marjory wife of Will.de

Ric. de, 120

Ryther, Rither, 158,250
Ryton, Rieton, Riton, 53, 231 ; pre-

positus de, 19

S

Sabine, Adam filius, 37

Sadberge, Saberge, Saddebergh, Sat-
berge, Sedberge. 1, 75, 77, 105 ;
balliva, 84 ; burgus, 86 ; comitatus,
14, 57 ; hallemot, 93 ; manerium,
socagium, veredictum, 16 ; villa, 77 ;
villata, 16 ; wapentagium. wapeuta-
kium, 1—11, 16, 80—105; balli-
vus, see Silvester of Darlington,
85 ; coronator, see Alanus Warin,
16 ; vicecomes, 6 ; see also Silvester
of Darlington ; Will, filius Galf ridi
de, 91 ; see also Sedbergh

Saeri, Ric. fil., 12

St., Sancta, Sancto, Agatha's abbey,
see Easby ; Albano, Rob. de, 84 ;
Alban's abbey (Herts), I9ln ; An-
dreas, Galfridus de, 61 ; Bees, 210,
280 ; priory, 145, *209, 210, 210/4,
279 ; Elena, Phil, de, 70 ; Ewe
(Cornwall), 293 ; John of Jerusa-
lem, see Hospitallers ; Margareta,
Ric. de, 61 ; Michael-on-Wyre, 208,
278 ; Oswald's priory, see Nostell

Salisbury, archdeaconry, 212n ; St.
Edmund's. 293 ; prebend : — Bea-
minster secunda, 300 ; Kingsteign-
ton, 300 ; Preston. 281% ; Shipton,
291, 298; bishop, John Walthara,
300

Salley, see Sawley

Samson de Wilecestre, 25

Sancton, San ton', 183. 275

Sandall (Wakefield), 162, 250; Kirk,
164, 253

IKDEX.

327

Sapere, Rog., 19

Saundby, Sawneby, 168. 258

Sawley, Salley, abbey, 161w, l*>~>

Saxindale, Saxendale, 171, 260

Saxstead (Suffolk), 298

Saxton. 159, 249

Scalby, 179. 266

Scalpy. Hugo, 1

Scalton, see Scawton

Scarborough. Scardeburgh'. 140. 2(><>

Scarf de Bedlingtone, 65

Scarle, South, 170, 259 ; John, 301

Scawton, Scalton, Skalton, 191, 2<>5

Schabintone. see Choppington

Schartenay, see Chartenay

Schipeweys, hospitale de. 67

Schouland, Scouland, Hugh. 112, 113,
117

Schurnenton. Gilb. fil. Walt, le felun
de, 31

Scirehotone. see Hutton, Sheriff

Scoland. Galfridus de, 70

Scorborough, Scoreburgh', Skorde-
burg', 184, 269

Scortfrend, Rog., 40

Scot, Skot, John, 113 ; Walt., 44 ;
Will., 54

Scoticus, Scotici. Scottus, Ric., Thos..
72 ; garcio. 24 : menestrallus de
faniilia regis, 57

Scotland, 57, 118, 124—127

Scrayingham, 178, 265

Scremerston. Scremereston. Skry-
merston, 119; Will.de, 114: Will.
de junior, Sir Will, de, 117

Screveton, Screton', 171, 260

Scrooby, 138, 139, 167, 210 (2)

Scrope, Lescrop (Masham), 220-/4 ;
John lord, 292, 299 ; John lord
(Masham), 296 ; Ric., archbishop
of York, 135, 299 ; Stephen le,
archdeacon of Richmond. 195,
212/t, 292, 299 ; Stephen lord
(Masham), 299 ; Will., canon of
Beverley, 272, 273, 299 (2)

Scruteuille, Ric. de, 70

Scruton, Scroueton, Scurueton', 205,
218. 276, 296

Scuff ur, Sucfur, Thorn., 9, 10

Southard, Rog., 47

Scyluedone, Rob. de, 84

Seaham, Seham, 22, 232 ; Cecilia de,
Fromundus de, 23

Seanier, Semer. 179, 266

Seaton, Seton, ' Carew. 2, 8, 99, 103;
domina de, 84 ; heres de, 83 ; priory
(Cumberland), 209?t. 280 ; Jordan us
de, 23, 64 ; Petrus de, 13

Sebina de Bolum, 8

Sedbergh, Sadbergh', 207, 278 ; see
also Sadberge

i Sedgefield, Segefeld. 147, 232 : ma-

gister Will, de, 33 '
! Sedlewysa. Galfridus de. 6
Sedyflat, 111
Selby, Seleby. abbey, 138, 148, 159,

159» (2), 1(57. 17i>«. 251, 254, 256;

spirituality, jurisdiction, 139, 159rc.

175», 177. 251 ; Wybertus de. 85
Sele, Will., 65
Selston. Seleston, 173, 261
Seman de Boil. 86
Semannus Bacheler, 22
Serjant, Adam, 115
Seruiens. Galfridus, 22 : Rad., 62, 66 ;

Ric., 18 ; Will., 29
Sessay, Cessay, 188, 262
Settrington, 178, 190», 266
Seuely, Hedwardus de, 10
Shadforth. Scaldeford, 28
Shafthow, John, 216
Sharpertou, 118
Sheffield, Shefeld', 163, 253
Shelford, 171, 260 ; priory, 170w, 171,

173w (2), 174, 250
Shelton, 170, 259

Shepherd, bercarius, Rob. the, 112
Sherburn (Durham), Schireburne,

Shirburn, 24, 28, 222 ; hospital, 145,

227, 229, 231, 233w (2). 296 ; (E. R.),

in Hartford Lythe, 178, 266 ; Ric.,

226

Shercroft, Sir John, Sir Will., 274
Shilbottle, Shilbotell', 237
Shincliffe, Schineclife, Schinecliue,

24 (2) ; pons de, 25 ; Adam de, 24
Shotton, John de, 109
Shrewsbury, Battlefield College, 178/i
Sibillia filia Rogeri de Wytewell, 33
Sibthorpe, 170, 259
Sierith, see Syerith
Sigglesthorne, 180, 269
Sigston, Siggeston', 192, 263
Silkstone, Silkeston', 162, 252.
Silksworth, Silkesworth, Silkeswrth,

30 ; Stephanus homo domine, 30 ;

Will, de, 118
Silton, Over, 263
Silvester, attornatus Rog. de Johelby,

see Silvester of Darlington
Simondburn, 236
Simonis, Alanus fil., 27 ; Gamellus fil.,

30 : Hugo fil., 88 ; Rob. fil., 27 ;

Rog. fil., 2

Sinnington, 190«. 265
Sins, Galfridus, 30
Sion abbey, 208^
Sither, Sythar, George, 224
Siwardtofte, 123
Siwegate, 65
Skeekling, 181, 268
Skeffling, 182w

328

INDEX.

Skelton (Cleveland), 189, 204 ; Sir
Rio., 229; Thus., 211, 212

Skerne, Skiren, Skyren, 184, 275 ;
river (Durham), 35, 36, 37

Skipse, 180,267

Skipton-in-Craven, 138, 161, 255

Skipwith, Skipwit, 176; Will, de,
124

Skirpenbeck, 178. 265

Skotton, John de, 215

Skyringeham, Will, de, 88

Slaidburn, Slayteburn'. 138, 161/i, 255

Slaley, Slamele, 236

Sledewise, Henr. clericus de, 10

Sledmer, Sir Will., 274

Sleekburn. Slikeburne. 67 (2), 69, 72 ;
Rob. fil.' Alewin de,' 66 ; Rob. fil.
Joh. de, 71

Slingsby, Slengesby, 191, 265 ; Will.,
214.

Smalecliwe, 80

Smaleye, Laurencius, 43

Smeaton, Smeton', Great, 189%. 206,
276 ; Kirk, 138, 165, 254 ; John,
234

Smire, Walt., 88

Smithetone, Will, de, 13

Smynson, Ric., 229

Smyth, Joh., 211; Sir Ric., 274;
Thorn., 216 : Will., 217

Snaith, 138, 254 ; spirituality, 148,
175, 177, 192, 254»

Snape, Peter, abbot of Jervaulx,
218%

Sneaton, Sneton', 190, 264

Sookburn, Sockeburne, Sokeburne,
38, 76, 102, 233 ; Hugo prepositus,
38 ; Will, piscator, 49

Socroch', le, 114

Somersham (Hunts), 301

Southwell, minster, 294 ; prebends,
see Crophill, North Leverton, North
Muskham, Normanton, Norwell
Palacehall, Oxton, Rampton, Wood-
borough ; canons, see John Ber-
nyngham, Henry Bowet, Thos.
Haxey, John Marshall, Rob. Rolles-
ton, Ric. Tone ; chapter, 137, I70n
(2) ; chapter peculiar, 151

Southwick (Durham), Suhtwic, 71 ;

Patricius de, 74
Sowby, John, 228

Sowerby - under - Cotcliff, Sowreby
juxta Sygheston, 124 ; Will, de,
114, 124

Spalde, Thomas, 212
Spar, Walt.. 85
Sparham. Will, de, 85
Spendeluue, Rob., 9
Spennithorne. Spenythorne. 204, 218,
276

Spic, Will., 125

Spicer, Alex., 19

Spindelstone, Spyndelstan, Spyndil-

stane, 114
Spinster, Peter, 1 1 3
Spofforth, Spott'ord, Spotford', 157.
158/i, 249 ; Thos., bishop of Here-
ford, 299

Spring, Henr., 101

Springalde, Eudo. Simon fil. ejus, 45
Sproatley, Sprotley, 182/i, 268 ; Sir

Thos., 274

Sprotborough, Sproteburgh:, 164, 253
Stagge, Ric., 171
Staindrop, Stayndrop, 47, 147, 233,

264ft, 279M

Stainfield priory (Line.), 161%
Stainley, South, Stanlay, Stanley,
204, 215, 216. 277 ; parish clerk,
Thomas, 216, 217, 218
Stainton (Cleveland), 190 ; (Durham),
1, 5, 51, 86 ; (Tickhill), 164, 253 ;
Great, Staynton' in strata, 233 ;
Henr. de, 36 ; Thorn, fil. Will, de,
10

Stamfordham, Stanfordham, 236
Stanford-on-Soar, 172, 260
Stanhope, Stanhop, Staiiope. 40, 45,
46, 47, 233 ; Bernardus fil. Swayn
de, 40; Joh. de, 118 ; Walt, homo
Henrici persone de, 51 ; Will. fil.
Walt, de, 40
Stanlawe, Ric. de, 110.
Stanlege Gilb. de, Waldel pastor de,

67

Stannington, Stanyngton, 236
Stanwell (Middlesex), 302
Stanyere, Walt, de, 19
Stapilford, 173, 261
Stapilton, Agnes wife of Sir Brian

(Carlton), 214 n
Startforth, Stirtford', Stretford', 205,

277

Staunton, 170, 259
Staveley, Stauelege, 144, 204,215, 216

(2), 217, 277 : Rob. de, 44
Staynhov, 102
Steill', John, 216
Stephanus probator, see Stephen of

Trimdon

Stertlum, see Streatlam
Stibeyn, Galf ridus, 44
Stil, John. 113
Stillingfleet, 140. 187, 262
Stillington prebend (York), 239
Stirk, Huctredus. 19
Stirtewaunt, Rob., 214
Stirton, Stretton', 168, 258
Stiuur, Will., 37

Stiward, Imania, Will., Walt., 35
Stoctone, Stoketone, balliua de, 14 ;

329

Aylvvinus de, Elyas pisoator de, 79 ;

Walt, de, 34
Stoke, East, by Newark. 170, 259 ; by

Clare (Suffolk). 300
Stokesley, Stokeslay, 189, 264
Stonegrave, Staynegrave, Stayngrefe,

191, 265
Stranton, Strantone, 2, 3. 232 ; Had.

fil. Ric. prepositi de, Bob. fil. Joh.

de, 3
Streatlam, Stertlum, Matheus fil.

Rob. capellani de, Nigellus de, 85
Strelley, 173, 261 ; Rob., 261»
Strensall prebend (York), 292
Stretton, see Stirton
Stringham, Will, de, 98
Stubbes, Steph. de, 52
Studley prebend (Ripon), 299
Sturdi, Galfridus, 66
Stut, Stute, Adam. 4 ; Joh., 21, 63 ;

Walt., 38

Sucfur, see Scuffur
Sumeruile, Will, de, 10, 85
Summerhouse, Sumerhuse, Sumeruse,

76, 85, 92, 96, 98
Sunderland, veredictum. 53 ; villata,

5o. 54 ; Alex. fil. Will, de, Hatholf

de, Henr. fil. Galfridi de, Walt. fil.

Henr. de, Will. fil. Will, de, Matilda

uxor Hatholf, 53 ; Will, de, 29
Super Teysam, see Surteys
Surayl, Rad. fil. Petri le, 6.
Surreys, Joh., 47
Surteys, Super Tese, Super Teysa.

Super Teysam, Surtayse, Surteyse,

Sur Teyse, Sur Teysam, Jocelin,

118 ; Rad. de, 10, 16, 78 (2), 86, 88.

94, 98, 101 (2) ; Ric., 96, 101, 102 ;

Ric. frater Rad., 102 ; Walt., 96,

101 (2) ; Walt, frater Rad., 16, 78
Suterpethe, 111
Suthcroft, 127
Suthiby, Thos., Will., 123
Suthrisdale, 123
Sutor, Henr., 19 ; Joh., 17 ; Nich., 61 ;

Rob., 17.

Sutoris, Rob. fil. Will., 35
Sutton-in-Ashfield, 174, 261 ; -on-Der-

went. 140; -on-the-f orest, in Galtres,

188. 262 ; Full, 185 ; -oil-Hull, 181,

268'; on Lound, 168 ; -on-Soar, 172,

260 ; -on-Trent, 170, 258
Swale, Juliana, 37
Swalewelle, Cristiana mater Martini

de, 69

Swayn de Stanhop, 40.
Swayniston, Thos. de, 118
Swillington, 158
Swindon (Glouc.), 193
Swine, 268 : priory, 181, 18 In (2),
J84/t, 186

Swinefleet, 175/&

Swinesgate, Siwegate, 65

iSwinestone, 14

Swinhoe. Swynhowe. Swynno, Swyn-
owe. 119 ; Henry, 119 (2) ; Henry
son of Rob., 119/4 ; John son of
Henry, 119« ; Maude wife of
Henry, 120

Swyn, Henr.. 85

Swyneshed', John, 224

Syerith. Cyerith, Seritha. Sieriht,
Sierith, Cokeman, 1 ; Syerith filia
Henrici rnolendinarii, 28 ; Greg,
fil.. 31 ; Syerith de Hamsterle,
41 ; Cyerith Cokeman, 2 ; Seritha
longa de Morhil, 50 ; Sieriht de
Linz, 63 ; Sierith filia Gamelli, 5 ;
Sierith uxor Will. Messarii, 3 ;
Syeriz Badde, 66

Synd' de Edene, 89

Tadcaster, 158, 249

Tailboys, Tayleboyse, Henry, 119 ;
John, 216, 217

Tailor. Taylour, parmentarius, Gil-
bert the, 111 (2); Rob.. 119

Tanfield (Durham). Tamfeld, Tham-
feld, Thampfeld, 112; West, 150,
218, 276

Tankerslay, 162, 252

Tannator, Rog., 17

Tannur, Rad. le, 61

Tassin de Bayllol, 8

Tatham, Tateham, 207, 279

Taya Cokeman, 1

Teisa, Teise, Tesia, Teysia, Teysa,
6 (2), 8, 14, 35, 57, 81 (5); molen-
dinarii juxta, 48, 85

Tekeman, Will., 7

Teler, Ric. le, 61

Terra Sancta, 47

Terrington, Tyryngton', Tyveryng-
ton', 188, 262

Tesedale, molendinum in, 81 ; Walt,
de, 88, 94

Tesemue, Rob. de, 56

Teston, Teyston, Will., 3

Tettenhall (Stafford), Codsall pre-
bend, 297

Teversall, Tereshall', Teresholt, 174,
261

Tewe, Isouda filia Joh., 18

Thewe, John, Rob., 119 ; Thomas, 120

Thexton', Joh., 216

Thickley, Thikeley, Tikeley, 46 ; Ante-
gone filia Gilb. de, 36

Thirkleby (N. R.). Thurkilby, 188,
263;t

330

INDEX.

Thirsk, 140, 189, 263

Thockerington prebend (York),
Thokerington, 195. 293, 295, 300

Thomas, Thome, Hellas fil., 2 ; Ran-
nulf sou of, i27: doin. Rob. fil..
112 ; Will, fil., 80

Thomesson, Tomesson, John, 119

Thoresby, John de, archbishop of
York, 281

Thormanby, Thormondby, 188. 202

Thorney. Thornhaw. 170, 25!)

Thornhill, Thornehill', 160, 250

Thorner, Thornour. 157, 249

Thornley, Thornlawe, Tornelawe.
Alicia de, 32 ; Gilb. fil. Sirnonis de,
Petrus fil. Rob. de. Thomas fil. Elie
de, 34

Thornton, Thorneton, abbey (Line.),
180tt. 181/i ; -le-Beans,in Fabis, 229 ;
(Craven), 161, 255 ; Dale, 190, 264 ;
-in-Lonsdale, 207, 278 ; -le-Moor, in
Mora, 229 ; Steward. Stiward', 205,
276,299 ; -le-Street, in Strata, 263 ;
Watlass, Whatlawes, Wattelowys,
204, 21 8rc, 276

Thorpe, Thorpe. Arch, 159 ; Basset,
178,266; Bulmer, 2; -in-Glebis,
171, 260 ; (Newark), 170, 259 ; pre-
bend (Ripon), 292, 293 ; Row.
Thorpraw, 189, 264: Emma filia
J'oh. de, Joh. de, 5 : Ric., 218

Thouthorp'. Mr. John de. 289

Thribergh, 163. 252

Thurcaston (Leic.), 296

Thurchilda de Langetone, 6

Thurgarton. 173, 261 ; priory, 139.
170—174, 260w (2), 261

Thurnscoe, Thrynscogh', 164», 252

Thurstanton, Bernard de, 109

Thwyng', Thweng'. 179, 266

Tickhill, 138, 139, 164, 253

Tikeley, see Thickley

Tilloley, Inge ram de, 8

Tindale, Hugo de, 48 ; Matilda uxor
Walt, de, Thomas fil. ejus. 52

Tipsete, 56

Tirquyt. Elyas de. 118

Tisbury (Wilts). 300

Tithby, Teythby, Tytheby, 172, 260

Tod, Todde, Emma, 7 ; Thomas, (Jo ;
Utting, Rob. fil. ejus, 31

Todwyk. 163, 253

Tollerton (Notts), Thorlaston', Tor-
laston', 172, 260

Tomesson, see Thomesson

Tone, Toyne, Tune, John, 299 ; Mr.
Ric., 272, 273, 299

Topcliffe, 189, 263

Tornelawe, see Thornley

Tosson, Little, 120

Totay, Tottay, Hog., 1

Toueton', Will., 215

Tracy. Emma, Thomas. 86

Trafford. Trefford, Treford, !»5. 97

Trail, Joh.. 65 : Rad. fil. Will., 64

Trayne, Mat. fil. Hug., 89 ; Rob.. 49

Treboub'. Ric., 104

Tredegold, Maude, 127

Treford, Trefford, see Trafford

Treiner Rob., 10

Tresley. dominus Thomas de. 68

Treswell. Tereswell', 169. 258

Treteham. domina de. S4

Treton', 163, 253

Tribelege, 64

Trillesdene, sae Tursdale

Trimdon, Tremedone, 232 ; homines

de, 27 ; Stephanus de. 19, 29 (2) ;

Will, bercarius de, 3 : dom. Will.

de, 20

Trinitarian order, 143
Trowell', 173, 261
Troy (Monmouth), 193»
Truan, Thomas. 50
Truter, Thomas, 51
Tuarfe, Galfridus de. 34
Tudhou, 39
Tughall, Rob. de, 118
Tunnoc Hoc, 71 ; de Linz, 66 ; Poke,

15 ; uxor Will, juvenis, 124
Tunstall. Tunstal (Durham), 53 ;

(Lane.), 207, 278
Turkil, Turchil, Ligna uxor Rob. fil.,

Rob. fil., 29

Tumour. Joh., 216 ; Rob.. 218
Turs, Turribus, Gilb. de, 48. 60, 111
Tursdale, Trillesdene, Trolesden, 24,

113

Tusard, Walt., 64
Tuxford, 169, 258

Twisel, Twisele, 67 ; Gerardus de, 67
Tyburnensis. John bishop, 294
Tymbreland', Sir Rob., 274
Tyne, Tina, Tine. 17, 18, 52, 57, 62,

63 ; rete in, 18 ; John, 127
Tynemouth, Tinemuta. Tynmue, 235 ;

prior, 85 ; priory, 235», 236» (2),

237;* (2) : magister Joh. de. 34
Tywe, Gocelinus, fil., 72 ; Joh., Ill

Ulleskelf prebend (York), Vlskelff',

240
Vlphus, Hulfe, Randulf us fil., 35 ; fil.

Rogeri, 82

Ulverscroft priory (Leic.), 173ft
Ulverston, 209, 279 (2)
Umfraville, Dunfrantuille. Vmfram-

ville. arms, 1 25rt ; Gilb. de, 58 ;

Rob. de, 85 ; Rob. de, knt., 119, 120

331

Vnderside, Rad., 34
Vnesleie, Gamellus de, Job. de. 71
Vnot, Wnot, Alicia filia, Joh. fil., 12
Unthank, Unthanke, 113 ; Simon de,

113

Vrpath, 17 ; Kdolf de. 30
Urswick, Vrsewyk', 209, 279
Usworth, G-reat, Little, Osewrthe,
Osworth. 73, 74, UQn ; Agneta
mater Will, de, 70 ; bercarius de,
74 ; Norman fil. Arkil de, 73 ; Simon
gener Baldewini de, Will. fil. Orm
de, 74 ; Will. fil. Patricii de. 69
Vtlage, 5

Vtting, Hutting-, Vtting. seruiens, 6 ;
Tod, 31 ; de Kempel, 38 ; de Nele-
stone, 80 ; fil. Ricardi, 47
Vttred, Rob. fil., Alicia mater ejus,
17

Vacherie, Rog. fil. Thorn, de la, 53

Vaghan, Hugh, 193%

Vale Royal abbey (Cheshire), 208/A

Vailibus, Ric. de, 115

Verarius, Ranulfus, 21

Verte, Alice, 217

Vielet uielator, 81

Vinetarius, Rad., 55, 5ft

Vitulus, Walt., Will., Imania, 35

Viuario, Adam de, 50

Vivoc, Joh. fil., 13

W

Waberthwaite, Wabrethwait, 210, 280

Wakefield, Wakefeld', 160, 250 ; Gilb.
de. Ric. seruiens de, 51

Wakelin, Rog. fil.. 62

Waldby. Waldeby, 269 ; Rob., arch-
bishop of York, 293

Waldel, pastor de Stanlege, 67

Waldeve, John son of, 116

Walesby, 169, 258

Walkel, Wakelin, Rog. fil., 62

Walker, Patricius, 63 ; Ric., 215 ;
Will., 54

Walkeringham. Walkryngham, 168,
258

Walkeropburne, 40

Walkington, 176, 276

Wallace, Wallensis, Will.. 116

Wallesende, Alanus de, 29

Wallingwells priory, 149, 164/&, 262

Walran the baker, 128

Walteri, Radulfus fil., 5

Walthani (Line.), 300; John, bishop
of Salisbury, 300 ; Will., canon of

York, archdeacon of the East

Riding, 195, 300
Walton. 159. 249
Ward', Warde, Thomas, 112, 225
Wardon, 236
Warin, Warini, Alanus, 16, 84 ; Rob.

fil., 27 ; Thomas fil., 85
Warkword, War worth. Werk worth',

237 ; Hugh, 223
Warmesworth, 164, 253
Warmfield, Warmefeld', Warnefeld',

160, 250

Warner, John, 225
Warrum, Rob. de, 96
Warsop. 169, 258
Warter, 185, 267 ; priory, 140, 149, 184,

184/i, 185, 186, 266, 267
Warton (Lane.), 207, 278, 293, 298 (2) ;

(Northumberland), 120?t; Marjory

sister of John de, 120
Washington, Wesigtone, Wesintone,

Wessigtone, Wessynton, 64, 66,

223w, 231 ; Johannes molendinarius

de, Agneta uxor ejus, 64 ; John,

prior of Durham, 146, 222, 223
Waterman, Sir John, 274
Wateuille, Rob. de, 34
Wath (N. R.), 276 ; -oii-Dearne, 163,

252
Watton, 184, 267 ; priory, 140, 183—

186, 267

Wdepathe, Rob. de, 70
Wear, Wer, Wera, 22. 25, 53, 62ra,

HOtt ; molendinarii juxta, 48
Wearmouth. Weremue, Wermue, 27,

33, 53 (2), 54 ; Bishop, Warmouth

episcopi, 231, 281, 2$ln ;. Monk,

Warmouth monachorum, 232 : cell,

224

Weaverthorpe, Wyuerthorpp', 266
Weighton, Wighton', 275 ; prebend

(York), 296
Welbeck abbey, 139, 168, 16Src, 169»,

171w, 174, 258
Welbury, 189, 264
Well, Welle, 205, 276, 297 ; hospital,

205/t ; master of the hospital, 218 ;

Ralph de, 123
Wells, prebends, Combe Septima, 297 ;

Compton, 300 ; Wanstrow, 296 ;

canon, see John Marshall
Welton, 176, 276
Welwick, 182, 268
Wensley, Wenselawe, Wenselay, 144,

204, 218, 220, 276
Weredale, 48
Werre, Walterus, 27
Werri de Frosterle, 40
Wessigtone, Wessyngton, aee Wash-
ington
Westamtone, 89 ; Ada fil, Steph. de, 89

332

INDEX.

Westminster. 147, 202: 226 ; Abbey,

168«, ll>9», 173-»; St. Stephens j

chapel. 160», Kilw, 1<>2» (2). 2.">2M
Westmorland. Westmorland, Ralph, i

earl of, 2'J8 ; KiC. de, 7 ; Rob., 225
Westoe. Wuustowe, 62
Weston (York), 157, 249 ; -in-the-

Clay, 1H9, 258
Westow, Wistowe, Wystow, 119, 178,

265
Westwic. Westwice. Gamellus de, 15 ; |

Gocelinus de, 10
Wetelawe, Will.de, 12
Wetwang prebend (York), 2i)l, 298 ; j

prebendary. 269w,
Whalton, 235 ; Rob. de, 124
Wharrorn Percy, 178, 265
Whatton, 171,259
Wheatley. North. 168, 257
Wheldrake, Queldryk', Wheldrik', 187,

262 ; John, 225
Whelpyngton, Kirk, 236
Whenby, Qwenby, Wheneby, 188, 262
Whicham, Whittingham, 209. 280
Whickham, Quicham, 17, 71, 231
Whiston, 163, 253
Whitbeck, Whitbek, 209, 280
Whitburn. Whitbarn. Whittebarn,

Witeburne. 228, 231 ; Rad. fil. Rad.

de, 6^2
Whitby, 190, 264 ; abbey, 141, 179w,

189/1 (3), 190, 191, 192/t. 264, 2t>4«
Whitewelle, Wytewelle, (Jristiana

relicta Rog. de, 33, 34 ; Mariota

filia Rog. de. Sibillia filia Rog. de.

33 ; Thomas capellanus de, 34
Whitfeld', 236
Whitgift, 175-». 254
Whitkirk, 158. 250
Whittingham. (Northumberland), 237;

sec also Whicham
Whittington, 207, 278
Whitworth, Witewrth, 233 ; Joh. de,

47
Whixley. Quyxley, Whixlay, 203. 215,

216(3), 217 (2), 277,292
Wickersley, Wikesley, Wikerslay, 163,

252

Widrnerpole, Wydemerpole. 171. 260
Widringtone, Walt. de. 60
Wighill, VVyghall'. 158. 248
Wiket, Ric., 2()

Wilberfoss. Wilbrefosse, 158. 267
Wilbreston', Will., 2>:5
Wilecestre, Samson de, 25
Wilford, 172, 260
Willelmi, Alicia filia, 80 ; Gilb. fil.,

31 ; Hugo fil.. 81 ; Rad. fil., 10;

Rog. fil., 35 ; Symon fil., 81
Willelmus juuerus. Tunnoc uxor sua,

124

Willesthorp', Will., 217, 218

Williamson, Oliver, 213

Willitof t, Willegt', 122

Willowston, see Wynlauton

Wilmerslay. see Wornersley

Wilotfheby, Wiloughby, Wilughby,
Wyloghby, 171, 260: Sir Hugh
(Wollaton), 299

Wilton prebend (York),210/t; (Wilts),
prebends. Chalke, 301 ; North New-
ton. 293 ; East, West. 276 ; Thomas.
224; Thomas de, 100

Winchester, bishop, prior and con-
vent, 302

Windegate, 24. 34 : Alanus de, 52 ;
Will, faber in, 24

Windermere, Wynatidemer, 207. 278

Windsor, St. George's chapel, 297

Winestead, Wynestede, 181, 268

Winkburn^ Wynkburn', 259

Wiuniua filia Fatricii de Cletlum. 9

Winston, 233

Winthorpe, 170, 259

Wintone, Phil, de, 40

Wintringham, Wyntryngham, 178,
266 ; Joan, 214

Wiot de Burseblades, 67

Wiretoftre, Rio. de, Will, de, 31

Wistow prebend (York), 294 ; nee also
Westow

Wisyn, see Misson

Wite. Walt, le, 30

Witentone, 93

Withe rnsea, Wythornse, 182, 268

Witton. Wttone (Durham), 41, 50 ;
Gilbert, 67, 232/?, ; East, 205, 276 ;
West, 204, 220 (2), 276 ; Joh., 215 ;
Radulfus. 211, 212 ; Ranulfus
cocus de, 41

Wlbyn. Hugo, 55

Wlger, Rad. fil. Rob., 42

Wlsingham, see Wolsingham

Wlwine, Hugo fil., 6

Wnot, Vnot, Joh. fil., Alicia mater
ejus, 12

Wollaton, 173, 261, 299

Wolsingham, Wlsingham. Wulsing-
ham. 41. 46. 48. 233 ; Jacobus faber
de, Emma uxor ejus, 40 ; Matilda
filia Lecie de, 47 ; Rog. de, 43 ;
Will, fullo de, 45

Wolverhampton, dean. 291. 294

Wombwell, Womwell', 252

Womersley, Wilmerslay, Wymmers-
ley, 159, 251

Wonston (Hants), 292

Woodborough prebend (Southwell),
298

Woodham, Wodum, 37, 17; Alanus
vaccarius de, 37 ; Hutting, Vtting
fil. Ric. molendinarii de, 47

INDEX.

333

Woodhorn, Wodhorn', 236
Woodkirk, Wodkirk, 162/i. 250
Wooler, Woller', 238
Worcester, bishop, Phil. Morgan, 136 ;

Thomas Polton, 143
Workington, Wyrkyngton, 210, 279
Worksop. Workesop, 169, 258 ; priory,

139, 168/i (2). 169% (2). 170%, 172/t

(2), 174(2), 258
VVragby, 162/i
Wrake, Will., 225

Wressle, Worisell', Wresill, 185, 275
Wttone, ftf.'e Witton
Wudingfelde, Job. de. 43
Wulatone, 53
Wuustowe, act- Westoe
Wyberton (Line.), 298
Wybertus de Seleby. 85
Wycliffe, Wiclyff, 206, 277 ; Joh., 224
Wydhod. Elias, 82
Wykeham, 190, 264 ; priory. 190,

190%, 265

Wykes, Ric. de, 83, 85
Wyrnarcus Papedy, 117
Wymondham (Leic.), 302
Wyndelisdon, Will, de, 109
Wynlauton', Willowston', Will., 234
Wyot, Whiot, Thomas, 195, 295. 301,

302
Wysall, Wysow. 172, 260

Yarm, Jarum, 264 ; Galfridus de, 56,
111

Yarwell', Mr. Gilbert de, 289

Yedingham, Yeddingharn, Zeddyng-
ham, 178, 266 ; priory, 178». I90rc

Yelande, l\ic. de, Matilda uxor ejus,
92, 100 (2), 101

York, 43 ; archdeaconry. 140, 149,
155—167, 175, 247—257

, chapel of St. Mary and the

Holy Angels or St. Sepulchre's,
139, 147, 159%, 160/i. 164w, 168%,
195, 242, 291, 292 (2), 302 ; canons.
xrr Thos. Grenewode, Thos. Wyot ;
on Ousebridge, 155, 244

, city visitation, 152 — 155, 243,

244

— churches : — All Saints, Fissher-
gate, 154, 243 ; All Saints, North-
strete, 155, 244; All Saints, Pave-
ment, 154, 243 ; All Saints, Pease-
holme, in Maresco, 154, 243 ; Holy
Trinity, Gothrumgate, 154, 243 ;
Holy Trinity. King's Court, in curia
Regis, 154, 243 ; St. Andrew, 154,
244 ; St. Clement. 155, 244 ; St.
Crux, Fossegate. 154. 243. 300 ; St,

Cuthbert, 154, 243 ; St. Denis,
Walmegate. 154, 243 : St. Edward,
154, 243 ; St. George, 154, 243 ;
St. Gregory. 155, 244; St. Helen,
Fisshergate, 154, 243 ; St. Helen-
on-the- Walls, in Aldewark, in Wer-
kedyke, 154, 243 ; St. Helen. Stayn-
gate, 154, 243 : St. John in Hunde-
gate, 154. 244 ; St. John, Ouse-
bridge, 155, 244 ; St. John del Pyk,

154, 244 ; St. Laurence, 154, 243 ;
St. Margaret. Walmgate, 154, 243 ;
St. Martin, Conyngstrete. 154, 244 ;
St. Martin, Micklegate, 155, 244 ;
St. Mary Bishophill junior, 212ft ;
St. Mary Bishophill senior, vetus,

155, 244, 299 ; St. Mary, Castlegate,
154, 243 ; St. Mary in Laarthorp',
154. 244 ; St. Maurice, 154, 244 ;
St. Michael-le-Belfrey, de Berif rido,
154 (2), 244 ; St. Michael, Ouse-
bridge. 155, 244 ; St. Nicholas.
Micklegate, 155, 244 ; St. Nicholas,
Walmgate, 154, 243; St. Olave,
154, 243 ; St. Peter the Little, 154,
243 ; St. Peter in lez Wilowes. 154,
243 ; St. Sampson, 154, 243 ; St.
Saviour in Maresco, 154, 243, 291,
300 ; St. Wilfrid, 154, 243

— , Corpus Christi Guild, 296

— court, commissary general, 291 ;
official, 242 ; proctor, registrar, 296

House (Westminster), 147

— Minster, 299 ; chantries, 293,
295 ; coinmuna ecclesie, 279 ; fabric
fund, 189/i; great tower, 301 ; S.W.
tower, 292

— prebends : — see Ampleforth,
Apesthorpe. Barnby, Beechhill,
Bilton, Bugthorpe. Butevant, South
Cave, Driffield, Dunnington, Fen-
ton, Fridaythorpe, Grindale, Hus-
thwaite. Knaresborough. Langtoft,
Laughton. Masham. Newbald, Ric-
call, Stillington. Strensall, Thoc-
kerington, Ulleskelf, Weighton,
Wetwang, Wilton, Wistow

— religious houses and hospitals: —
Holy Trinity priory, 158% ; St.
Clement's priory, 248, 256 ; St.
Leonard's hospital, 188/4, 205% (2),
206%, 301 : St. Mary's abbey, 137,
158/4. 163/4, 180%. 188/4, 191n, 205%
(2). 206», 207%, 210 (2), 233%, 236»,
248, 255, 291 ; abbot, gee Thomas
Spofford ; St. Mary's hospital.
Bootham, 187% : St. William's col-
lege, 239%, 292, 296

archbishop, 10, 83, 85 ; see also

Will. Bothe, Henry Bowet, John
Kempe, Will. Melton John le

334

INDEX.

Romeyn. Ric. Scrope, John de
Thoresby. Rob. Waldby : receiver,
see John Marshall : registrar, see
Mr. A. V. Hudson: liberty, 48;
neptis archiepiscopi. 83

archdeacon, see Will. Felter,

Rob. Gilbert ; auditor. Ric. Arnold,
291

- canons and prebendaries : —
Will, of Airmyn, Hugh of Angou-
leme, Ric. Arnold, Thomas Bekyn-
ton, John Bernyngham, Henry
Bowet the archdeacon. Ric. Brown.
Will. Cawode, Thomas Chichele,
Prospero Colonna, Ric. Cordon,
Will. Duffield, Brian Fairfax, Will.
Felter, Thos. Grenewod, Thos.
Haxey, Peter Irford, Alan Kirk-
ton, John Langton. Ric. Leyot,
John Marshall. Thos. Morton, John
Notyngham, Rob. Rolleston, Ste-
phen Scrope, Will. Waltham

- chancellor, 240?* ; see John
Kexby

- dean, see Ric. Andrew, John
Bernyngham, Will. Felter, Rob.

Gilbert, Thos. Polton, John Pro-
phete

- dean and chapter, 141, 147,
157», 164??, 168», 194—200. 238
242, 266??, 280—290 ; auditor, 291 ;
comperta, 198; detecta, 198, 238;
peculiar, 151, 154» (2). 165»

— dean of Christianity, 137. 243,
285

- - precentor, 240». 296 ; see John

Castell, Rob. Dobbes, Brian Fair-
fax, Will. Kexby ; subdean, 268»,
see Ric. Arnold ; succentor, 302

- treasurer, 240w, 291, 292 ; see
John Bernyngham, Rob. Gilbert,
Thos. Haxey. John Newton, John
Notyngham.

- vicars, gee John Bradeway,
John More ; vicars choral, 154w.
188%

- common clerk. Thos. Mvnskvu

— , Hugo de, 55 ; Sir John, 274
Yorkshire deeds. 122—124
Yvedall, Hugh de, Engelisse his wife,

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